[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Updater Applet?
Hi all, A relative newcome to Opensuse-GNOME. Trying it out for my engineering requirements. I have a question regarding an updater applet for the GNOME variant. I know that KDE has an updater applet (not the PackageKit one), which provides a list of upgrades based on the repo priorities etc. Is there any such thing for GNOME? The PackageKit version shows dependency issues, as I have several OBS repos (GNOME: STABLE, Evolution, GNOME:Apps etc). I'd appreciate some assistance on this. Regards Anshul Jain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On 3/28/2010 at 10:01 PM, in message <606f7fb51003280931j2bd6e1dfmb2a643d19b4ab45@mail.gmail.com>, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, A relative newcome to Opensuse-GNOME.
Welcome :-) Trying it out for my engineering
requirements. I have a question regarding an updater applet for the GNOME variant. I know that KDE has an updater applet (not the PackageKit one), which provides a list of upgrades based on the repo priorities etc. Is there any such thing for GNOME? The PackageKit version shows dependency issues, as I have several OBS repos (GNOME: STABLE, Evolution, GNOME:Apps etc).
I'd appreciate some assistance on this.
I would recommend not to have another new software updater. If you find something missing in existing updater-applet (based on packagekit) , w.r.t. OBS repositories, why not implement it (instead of creating a new updater) ? Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Sankar P <psankar@novell.com> wrote:
On 3/28/2010 at 10:01 PM, in message <606f7fb51003280931j2bd6e1dfmb2a643d19b4ab45@mail.gmail.com>, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, A relative newcome to Opensuse-GNOME.
Welcome :-)
Trying it out for my engineering
requirements. I have a question regarding an updater applet for the GNOME variant. I know that KDE has an updater applet (not the PackageKit one), which provides a list of upgrades based on the repo priorities etc. Is there any such thing for GNOME? The PackageKit version shows dependency issues, as I have several OBS repos (GNOME: STABLE, Evolution, GNOME:Apps etc).
I'd appreciate some assistance on this.
I would recommend not to have another new software updater. If you find something missing in existing updater-applet (based on packagekit) , w.r.t. OBS repositories, why not implement it (instead of creating a new updater) ?
Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com
I wish I was a developer, so that I could implement it :( From what I've seen, the gnome-packagekit updater cannot handle the different priorities set in YaST. It treats all of the repos as default and tries to upgrade. Regards Anshul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On 3/28/2010 at 10:31 AM, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, A relative newcome to Opensuse-GNOME. Trying it out for my engineering requirements. I have a question regarding an updater applet for the GNOME variant. I know that KDE has an updater applet (not the PackageKit one), which provides a list of upgrades based on the repo priorities etc. Is there any such thing for GNOME? The PackageKit version shows dependency issues, as I have several OBS repos (GNOME: STABLE, Evolution, GNOME:Apps etc).
I'd appreciate some assistance on this.
Regards Anshul Jain
The GNOME updater (gpk-update-icon) uses libzypp to resolve dependencies in the same manner as YaST, zypper and the KDE updater with the zypp backend. You should get the same results using the updater as manually running zypper to install patches - "sudo zypper up -t patch". If you don't could you file a bug on that. If you do get dependency issues with zypper you would need to look into the specific problems - with multiple repos and packages installed from them, you can get valid dependency issues. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Scott Reeves <sreeves@novell.com> wrote:
On 3/28/2010 at 10:31 AM, Anshul Jain <anshulajain@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, A relative newcome to Opensuse-GNOME. Trying it out for my engineering requirements. I have a question regarding an updater applet for the GNOME variant. I know that KDE has an updater applet (not the PackageKit one), which provides a list of upgrades based on the repo priorities etc. Is there any such thing for GNOME? The PackageKit version shows dependency issues, as I have several OBS repos (GNOME: STABLE, Evolution, GNOME:Apps etc).
I'd appreciate some assistance on this.
Regards Anshul Jain
The GNOME updater (gpk-update-icon) uses libzypp to resolve dependencies in the same manner as YaST, zypper and the KDE updater with the zypp backend. You should get the same results using the updater as manually running zypper to install patches - "sudo zypper up -t patch". If you don't could you file a bug on that. If you do get dependency issues with zypper you would need to look into the specific problems - with multiple repos and packages installed from them, you can get valid dependency issues.
Thanks for the clarification. However, I do think that it should be capable of not only performing the "zypper up -t patch" command, but also the "zypper up -t package" or optionally..."zypper dup" as well. A case in point, rhythmbox was updated to 0.12.8 yesterday. The "zypper up -t package" provided me with the update option....but gpk-update-icon didn't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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