Unacceptable up2date functionality

Douglas Stewart dstewart at atl.lmco.com
Wed Oct 22 19:57:40 UTC 2003


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Douglas Stewart wrote:
| Due to Rawhide's absence since yesterday, I've noticed that up2date is
| COMPLETELY user-unfriendly when it can't reach a yum repo.  Instead of
| printing any error messages to the tune of "I can't reach that repo.
| Sorry!", it simply spits cryptic Python errors to the terminal window
| and hangs the progress window, while moving the main window to "Packages
| to be skipped".
|
| I would suggest that, in such cases, up2date offer up something akin to
| the dialog the user encounters when no updates are needed (i.e., " Can't
| reach any of the listed repositories.  Please check your network
| settings and try again later".)
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| Doug Stewart
| Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
| Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
|
| Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur

In the spirit of "If it ain't in Bugzilla, it doesn't exist", I've
submitted RFE 107768.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107768

Cheers.

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
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