Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (43 mails)

["Francis Giannaros" <francisg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/10/07, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The openSUSE updater is a desktop applet which shows the user the available
> updates (patches). It is very light and simple as the real work is done by
> the YaST solver. This allows us to provide one applet per desktop, much like
> you have a a NetworkManager applet per desktop.
>
> The KDE applet was born last year as a Google SoC project. Today I imported
> the opensuseupdater KDE applet sources from berlios to
> svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp. The gnome applet was already in the zypp
> repository.
>
> There is a new wiki page for both the KDE and Gnome applet.
> * http://en.opensuse.org/Updater_Applet
>
> The sources for both applets are located here:
>
> * http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/trunk/updater-gnome/
> *
> http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/SuSE-Linux-10_2-Branch/updater-kde/
>
> Also, there is a work branch for the KDE applet where a major refactoring is
> going on to cleanup legacy code from SoC, use cmake as build system and load
> the backends as KDE plugins. It will become trunk once it works:
>
> http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/zypp/branches/work/updater-kde-refactoring/updater-kde/
>
> Just email me for any question!
>
> cheers

Nice stuff.

Are there any plans to have an option in the updater to make it work
like an upgrader (bug #216097), as well? There was a discussion about
this at a status meeting a while back, and it was generally concluded
(also by AJ, as I recall) that it would be nice to have (very
frequently-requested feature; zen-updater worked like that, even if it
was a bug, and people really liked it) as an option, but not -- of
course -- enabled by default.

Kind thoughts,
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Francis Giannaros
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