Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [SLE] online_update from two YAST repositories?
- From: mikus@xxxxxxx (Mikus Grinbergs)
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:50:53 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <dagcDlW2vTzQ092yn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:53:53 -0500 Hans Krueger <hanskrueger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ... have you tried smart out yet ?
> any good ?
Been trying it out myself (mainly the GUI version).
Pro: - If a package is available from more than one depository, it
can show them all (the user could then select which he wants).
- The user can select a package, and be shown immediately if
something must be back-leveled. (If he doesn't want that, he
can cancel that selection.)
- It can perform all needed upgrades with just one or two clicks.
(For those who like it simple.)
Con: - Haven't figured out if the equivalent of "suggested packages"
is available. So I ADD packages manually (see below).
- I like it that smart starts multiple downloads simultaneously.
But I suspect that my overall data transfer speed with smart
is slower than with apt.
- I'm on a dial-up line. The current smart shows the transfer
speed measured over too small an interval. The number shown
"bounces" all over the place, and to me is NOT informative.
- If I'm looking for something, the smart index has so many
categories that my mind is overloaded. Instead, I've had to
resort to 'search'. I prefer the arrangement in YaST's
Software Management --> Package Groups.
I had problems using the gui facility to ADD depositories. Besides,
*all* the information had to be typed into various fields anyway. I
found it easier to manually copy from an existing file in the channels
directory, then use a text editor to put in directory specifics. Note:
when displaying, smart COMBINES channel contents if the string (before
'-') in the first line of the channel file *matches* for several files
(e.g., first lines [packman-apt] and [packman-i686-apt]).
I'm still learning the "useability" of the smart gui. One thing I do,
to find out if packages not installed on my system have been added or
updated in the depositories, is to specify 'hide old' and 'expand'.
I then look over the shown names (and their descriptions), to see if
I'm interested in installing any of them.
Still learning, mikus
>
> ... have you tried smart out yet ?
> any good ?
Been trying it out myself (mainly the GUI version).
Pro: - If a package is available from more than one depository, it
can show them all (the user could then select which he wants).
- The user can select a package, and be shown immediately if
something must be back-leveled. (If he doesn't want that, he
can cancel that selection.)
- It can perform all needed upgrades with just one or two clicks.
(For those who like it simple.)
Con: - Haven't figured out if the equivalent of "suggested packages"
is available. So I ADD packages manually (see below).
- I like it that smart starts multiple downloads simultaneously.
But I suspect that my overall data transfer speed with smart
is slower than with apt.
- I'm on a dial-up line. The current smart shows the transfer
speed measured over too small an interval. The number shown
"bounces" all over the place, and to me is NOT informative.
- If I'm looking for something, the smart index has so many
categories that my mind is overloaded. Instead, I've had to
resort to 'search'. I prefer the arrangement in YaST's
Software Management --> Package Groups.
I had problems using the gui facility to ADD depositories. Besides,
*all* the information had to be typed into various fields anyway. I
found it easier to manually copy from an existing file in the channels
directory, then use a text editor to put in directory specifics. Note:
when displaying, smart COMBINES channel contents if the string (before
'-') in the first line of the channel file *matches* for several files
(e.g., first lines [packman-apt] and [packman-i686-apt]).
I'm still learning the "useability" of the smart gui. One thing I do,
to find out if packages not installed on my system have been added or
updated in the depositories, is to specify 'hide old' and 'expand'.
I then look over the shown names (and their descriptions), to see if
I'm interested in installing any of them.
Still learning, mikus
| < Previous | Next > |