[Mageia-discuss] Easyurpmi forMageia ?

Sun May 22 19:59:40 CEST 2011

On Sunday, May 22, 2011 01:21:56 am Daniel Le Berre wrote:
+> 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
+I think this is a very valuable discussion and a need for it showing by the 
+number of posts.
+
+people often do not know about the media manager:
+I was one of 'em. Where is it? In Mageia, Control Cender, Configure media, I 
+didn't know a way to add a medium by hand. If I click on the add button I can 
+add either an <update sources only>  and/or a <full set of sources> and what 
+it does, it adds a $mirrorlist as source, I do not know or have control where 
+those are. I have to go to -> file and then yes, I get a list. This is not very 
+obvious since there is an <add> button.
+
+So instead I used easyurpmi old interface (which shows a lot of errors) and 
+then copied and paste the command into a konsole.
+
+Maybe by adding the options to show when clicking on the add button would 
+provide a good option, but I think it is is too late for Mageia 1
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+