Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (47 mails)

[Jano Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:23:32PM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote:
> > The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
> >   libpackagekit-glib10 PackageKit
> >
> > The following package is going to be upgraded:
> >   libqdialogsolver1
> >
> > The following packages are going to be downgraded:
> >   libzypp satsolver-tools yast2-gtk yast2-ncurses-pkg
> > yast2-pkg-bindings yast2-qt-pkg zypper
> >
> > The following packages are going to change vendor:
> >   libqdialogsolver1   openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   libzypp             openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   satsolver-tools     openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   yast2-gtk           openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   yast2-ncurses-pkg   openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   yast2-pkg-bindings  openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   yast2-qt-pkg        openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
> >   zypper              openSUSE Build Service -> openSUSE
>
> I know that this is unrelated, but can zypper's output be improved?

Sure :O)

> 1) It doesn't print the version changes in the upgrade/downgrade list.
>    Personally, I prefer to see the version changes.

Enter '?' at the 'Continue?' prompt, you'll see some more display
options. Note that this is git HEAD version from OBS, it hasn't been
released to factory yet.

> 2) It shouldn't use that much output to display the vendor/arch
>    changes, it should display it like
>
> The following packages are going to change vendor from
> 'openSUSE Build Service' to 'openSUSE':
>   libqdialogsolver1 libzypp satsolver-tools yast2-gtk yast2-ncurses-pkg
>   yast2-pkg-bindings yast2-qt-pkg zypper

Yup, might be better, but what if there are, say 4 different vendor
changes? You'd get four such 'sections' with fewer packages, instead of
one 'vendor change' section with a list like above. I'm not sure what
would be more readable.

-- 
cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
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