[Bug 231159] New: Four suggested enhancements to the YaST system
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 Summary: Four suggested enhancements to the YaST system Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: scx.dps@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Hello, here I post my ideas in order of priority. 1) Automated mirroring. The repodata files has a unique md5sum, as this md5sum will be the same on every mirror, YaST could detect whenever there are more than one servers with the same packages, so that YaST would be able to auto-detect and configure those sources as mirrors, instead of adding these as new sources. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) When editing installation sources, the sources are being refreshen every time something is modified, we could make the refresh of the sources to take place only after clicking "finish" or explicitly by the user, otherwise it is a bit annoying and time consuming. 3) To pause and resume an update or an installation process. It would be useful specially for PC's without access to a broadband connection, for instance when I had dial up, I had to keep the PC running for long hours just to get updates. There are times when people just can't get access to broadband connections or simply can't afford it, in the country I was living, DSL is too expensive so that everyone uses dial-up. 4) Something to customize YaST ncurses appearance. I can thing of a very simple script able to switch ncurses colours from blue to green or red or b/w; it could be added to the sysconfig module maybe ? I don't think there would have much sense to do the same with the GUI interface though. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 mhorvath@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |lslezak@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | ------- Comment #1 from mhorvath@novell.com 2006-12-31 06:57 MST ------- Thank you for your response and support. But, please, do not write more than one enhancement/bug in one report. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 jsrain@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |LATER ------- Comment #3 from jsrain@novell.com 2007-01-05 02:48 MST ------- 1) I understand this requirement, however, the fact that two sources are the same in one moment doesn't mean that they will keep the same in the future (so I'd like to avoid making any relationship between the sources based on an MD5 checksum. OTOH, it can make sense to - check MD5sum before downloading/refreshing the metadata against other existing sources - build the relationship (if we can make use of it) on the fly when initializing YaST/ZYPP. I will add an entry to the feature database. 2) Added to feature database. 3) Even though your reasons sound reasonable, i don't think it is a good idea to stop any package manager translation. The reason is that in such case you have an inconsistent system (eg. foo-1 and foo-devel-2) due to partly updated system. I suggest you should update/install only the minimal requireded set of packages in such situations. 4) Added an entry to feature database Resolving bug as LATER (items 1,2,4 were added to feature database and will be evaluated according to the feature process) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 scx.dps@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |scx.dps@gmail.com Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|LATER | ------- Comment #5 from scx.dps@gmail.com 2007-01-06 18:56 MST ------- 1) Ok, that "dynamic mirroring" you sounds much smarter, I really, really like the idea. :D 3) Well that's another thing, YaST uses to: "download package1" "install package1" "download package2" "install package2" and so on, But it is also time consuming, what I propose is YaST to download the packages, once all are downloaded, then will be installed, just alike to "smart" packagemanager in this case. Smart automatically resumes the instalation of packages. If an instalation or update is paused, whenever the user tries again that package, if it is already downloaded, there's no need to download it again, and simply continues downloading the remaining packages. Even if pause/resume is were not reliable, the part about YaST downloading all files and after that installing would be not only faster but safer also if we consider the eventuality of a server going down in the middle of the instalation. Id est: "download package1" "download package2" "download package3" "install package1" "install package2" "install package3" Thank you. (really) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 jsrain@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |LATER ------- Comment #6 from jsrain@novell.com 2007-01-09 05:22 MST ------- We have already discussed the idea "download everything first, then install", however, it doesn't work if you are running out of disk space (in this case, in addition to all the files in the packages you need space for all the RPMs). One more idea, which is being discussed as well, is to download next package while previous one is being installed. These ideas are already discussed in SUSE, however, I don't expect them to be implemented in next release (due to complexity). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231159 ------- Comment #7 from kmachalkova@novell.com 2007-06-15 05:44 MST ------- Feature #4 is now done.
From yast2-2.15.37 and yast2-ncurses-2.15.19 on, you can switch between available ncurses color themes using Y2NCURSES_COLOR_THEME variable in /etc/sysconfig/yast2 :-)
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--- Comment #8 from Ladislav Slezak
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