[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Sun May 22 10:21:56 CEST 2011

Le 22/05/2011 09:42, Luca Olivetti a écrit :
+> Al 22/05/11 05:51, En/na Wolfgang Bornath ha escrit:
+> 
+>>
+>> My reason was not to add PLF or any other repo (MUD or other). My main
+>> reason was my dislike of the %MIRRORLIST system of Mandriva, you could
+>> get connected to a very slow mirror or even to one which was not
+>> uptodate without urpmi being able to switch to another mirror during
+>> one session (a known bug).
+> 
+> Same here, I *never* managed to upgrade the distribution, without
+> using easyurpmi with manual mirror selection (the upgrade tool just removed
+> the existing sources and always failed to add new ones).
+> 
+> Bye
+
+I used easyurpmi for a while, mainly to add PLF sources, or to specify a
+specific mirror when there was some mirroring problems in MDV (hdlist
+not synced with repository content for instance).
+
+As noted previously, the PLF issue does not hold for MGA.
+
+It is probably worth improving the way the current media manager is
+working than add yet another tool to the distrib.
+
+We could have for instance checkboxes when importing media sources with:
+
+- select mirror: by default let the media manager find a mirror for you,
+else select one in a list
+- include tainted: by default disable access to tainted repository. Warn
+the user about the content of those repositories.
+
+The main point is that people often do not know about the media manager.
+Maybe a button to that tool directly in the update app would give it
+more visibility, instead of looking into it on the package manager menu.
+Or maybe it should be an app on its own.
+
+Daniel
+