| Summary: | Enhancement: selecting new packages in quick succession. | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | davidwhodgins |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | rpmdrake-5.26.8-1.mga1.src.rpm | CVE: | |
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Description
Doug Laidlaw
2011-05-03 00:43:36 CEST
rpmdrake only downloads the info once per repo, by default you only have 4 enabled repos: Core Release Core Updates Nonfree Release Nonfree Updates Updates aren't used in cauldron, so you only have 2 enabled repos; nonfree doesn't get that many packages so in reality you only have 1 enabled repo, so you should see the info-downloading dialogue only once :) You can change the info download behaviour from drakrpm-edit-media -> Options -> Global Options; the "XML meta-data download policy". It's downloading the xml files for the descriptions, etc. To have them downloaded when the urpmi.update is run add xml-info: always to the global (first) section of /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg CC:
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davidwhodgins Thanks Dave. On my system there is no place in urpmi.cfg for it. Is that parameter perhaps added to the command line calling it? There is a man page for urpmi.cfg. In the GUI, it can be set under the "options" menu. I did that a while back. I don't mind if they are downloaded only when specifically requested, and left off otherwise. The GUI, edit-urpm-sources.pl or edit-urpm-sources.pl, writes to urpmi.cfg, at the top of the file between the curly brackets:
{
xml-info: foo
}
foo being either never, on-deman, update-only or always.
But if you'd already set the option to your preference, I don't understand what the report is about....
Doug, I think this bug should be closed as Resolved/Invalid, as the choice is available to have all of the xml files downloaded when the urpmi.update is run, or when the descriptions are actually needed for rpmdrake. If you agree, please change the status to Resolved/Invalid. I agree. I had forgotten that it was settable at all. I have never seen such a long-winded installation procedure as the default, anywhere else. Once I have selected the package to download, I don't need the computer any longer to give me reasons why I should. On to the next one!(In reply to comment #4) > The GUI, edit-urpm-sources.pl or edit-urpm-sources.pl, writes to urpmi.cfg, at > the top of the file between the curly brackets: > { > xml-info: foo > } > > foo being either never, on-deman, update-only or always. > > But if you'd already set the option to your preference, I don't understand what > the report is about.... I had forgotten that the option was there, and it disappeared with the next installation from scratch. I saw it when I mentioned it, but now I can't find it. From memory, it was under "Options -> Global Options" but it isn't there now. Surely it hasn't been removed by an update in the last day or so? I am comfortable with the idea of editing the config file as you suggest, but my config file is just a list of repositories with no options. That kind of edit is not for new users. Status:
NEW =>
RESOLVED The option is still there in the GUI, drakrpm-edit-media (aka edit-urpm-sources.pl ). |