Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Duncan Mac-Vicar P. <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> [Jul 20. 2007 16:36]:
> On Friday 20 July 2007 01:57:13 pm Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > For 'zypper sa http://foo bar', why do user NOT want an immediate metadata
> > download ?
> >
> > Lets see
> > - the system is currently offline
> > - the user is adding lots of repos in a batch
> > - the user just wants to prep the system without using the repo immediately
> > What else ?
> >
> > Imho, adding a repo (via zypper or yast) should at least check for
> > reachability of the repo and give immediate feedback. (one might have
> > mistyped the url, access an incompatible architecture, etc.)
> 
> Checking for reachability needs network access, which is you did not want 
> above.

What do you propose for error checking and reporting ?


Klaus
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