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I agree that +</I>><i> >>>>> improving the UI side helpers could be useful. +</I>><i> >>>>> +</I>><i> >>>>> Regards +</I>><i> >>>>> +</I>><i> >>>>> Samuel Verschelde +</I>><i> >>>> +</I>><i> >>>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot; +</I>><i> >>>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS... +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if +</I>><i> >>> you enter at least 2 chars, or something like that. +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db +</I>><i> >>> or similar as a list. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> OK, I did a little search on Ajax, and I think that I understand now. +</I>><i> >> It seems that you're proposing autocompletion on the text typed in the +</I>><i> >> field - and only matches will be downloaded. +</I>><i> >> But if it starts with 2 characters, there could be still 1000's of names +</I>><i> >> downloaded. +</I>><i> >> I would suggest that we would need at least 5 characters to restrict the +</I>><i> >> names downloaded to a reasonable number. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Also, there is another factor. If we are looking for srpm names, but +</I>><i> >> the user enters binary rpm names, there will not necessarily be a match, +</I>><i> >> particularly if the srpm results in more than one binary rpm. +</I>><i> >> So in some cases this will not work. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> But I have another idea. +</I>><i> >> Maybe we could have separate (binary) rpm and srpm fields. +</I>><i> >> There is a button on the page, which will invoke the command to give the +</I>><i> >> srpms associated with the binary rpms. +</I>><i> >> Would this be workable ? +</I>><i> >> Something that would execute +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> $ rpm -q --qf '{sourcerpm}' {pkg-name} +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> and would automatically enter the result in the srpm field, or at least +</I>><i> >> display it so it could be typed in. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Of course, this would have to be done by the user experiencing the +</I>><i> >> problems, to ensure having the correct version. +</I>><i> >> We would also have to deal with the cases where more than one rpm has +</I>><i> >> the bug. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> If we can automate this, we can dispense with the potential problems +</I>><i> >> associated with a list of srpms. And it would be (at least somewhat) +</I>><i> >> more efficient both server and client side, as well. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Just an idea +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> André +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > this is no more than sort of TAB completion on the urpmi commands. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That part I understand. +</I>><i> Only these values will be downloaded, so some online traffic. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > averagely 2 characters have ~600 possibilities; meaning that 2 chars give +</I>><i> > average 25 srpm results. in practice this can be 150 results or something +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Your numbers are right. Obviously I had one too many zeros. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > consider also the fact that these are src.rpm , so huge lib**** and the +</I>><i> > fact that we won't be starting with everything... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I was thinking of lib*, which is why I said more than 3 characters. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > imho instead of destroying an idea you don't know much about; why don't i +</I>><i> > implement it and then you can evaluate if it's bad or not. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Actually, I was trying brainstorming. We all know that such ideas don't +</I>><i> necessarily lead anywhere. +</I>><i> It is certain that your idea is a lot better than it first appeared. +</I> +yeah, sorry, i (and misc) just am trying to suggest an idea that gets broken +off by people who don't even seem to get it; coupled with less sleep and my +cranky, i could've worded it better + +><i> However, invoking the rpm command has certain advantages. +</I>><i> Most importantly, if done on the system of the user finding the bug, it +</I>><i> reports exactly the correct version of the srpm. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For example, on my system, if I type in the console exactly : +</I>><i> +</I>><i> rpm -q --qf '%{sourcerpm}' binutils +</I>><i> +</I>><i> _without_ the version, it returns : +</I>><i> +</I>><i> binutils-2.19.51.0.2-1mnb2.src.rpm +</I>><i> +</I>><i> _with_ the version, which is exactly what we want. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So I have a suggestion. +</I>><i> With your Ajax skills, I imagine that you would be capable of setting a +</I>><i> button which automatically invokes that command on a binary rpm field, +</I>><i> to fill a srpm field ? +</I>><i> Could you try that as well ? +</I>><i> If it works, then I think we would have a better solution. +</I> +i'm not certain that is required, iirc, the command to find this stuff is out +there; and the info can be found on mageia-app-db i think. + +however, if it isn't a src.rpm but a perfect match for a binary rpm, i guess +we could return the src.rpm instead. + +><i> I could try it, but my html/javascript skills are quite limited. +</I>><i> Just a suggestion. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> André +</I></PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001893.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001898.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1894">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1894">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1894">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1894">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |