[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Sun May 22 10:19:07 CEST 2011

2011/5/22 Daniel Le Berre <le.berred at free.fr>
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+> 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
+>
+
+Well, it is "an app on its own", just look at Mageia Control Center.
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