Bug 549

Summary:	Please add package summaries back to the individual selection
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Robert Courtright <rbcourt>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, molch.b, pterjan, theamazingchiepoo, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Robert Courtright 2011-03-25 17:28:31 CET

Description of problem:

During install and in the individual package selection the descriptions are blank, On some packages I have no idea what the package is. All I get is must have or nice.
Some package I know what they are and must have are incorrect. 
New user may be installing packages that are not needed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Alpha 1 & 2 installs


How reproducible:
Every install.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install
2. Go to individual package selection. 
3. Select any package and see that their is no description.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Ahmad Samir 2011-03-25 19:44:30 CET

CC: (none) => pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-07-07 11:03:44 CEST

*** Bug 2057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => molch.b

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-07 23:18:33 CEST

Was this still like that in Mageia 1 rc and Mageia 1?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 3 Robert Courtright 2011-10-08 02:31:00 CEST

It's that way in the the full release!

Marja Van Waes 2011-10-08 08:06:10 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2011-10-26 19:23:10 CEST

(change severity as major because it's a bug, not a request)

Severity: enhancement => major

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2011-10-27 10:14:30 CEST

revert severity since it doesn't impact anything, it's just a minor regression in GUI

Severity: major => normal

Comment 6 Wolfgang Bornath 2011-10-27 10:56:35 CEST

Pls re-think this, it is not just "a minor regression".
The absence of any package description in the individual package selection renders this step almost useless unless you know all package names and their function by heart. IMHO it is one of the most annoying matter in the installation process.

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2011-12-21 23:05:25 CET

We miss calling ->pack_header() somewhere.
Prior to switching installer to urpmi code, we were extracting the package headers from hdlist in extractHeaders() by calling update_header()

Now there's nothing doing that.
We should traverse the DB and call pack_header() on packages to install.

Maybe in install::pkgs::_install_raw(), open_helper() could do something similar to is_package_installed(), packing headers prior to call $callback.

Or since this callback only needs summary in Gtk+ install, maybe can we alter  *install::steps::installCallback directly in install::steps_gtk::installPackages() in order to retrieve the summary from the DB.

Perf impact to be evaluated...

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Summary: Please add 1 line package descriptions back to the individual selection => Please add package summaries back to the individual selection (missing pack_heder)

Thierry Vignaud 2012-01-02 21:36:00 CET

Summary: Please add package summaries back to the individual selection (missing pack_heder) => Please add package summaries back to the individual selection (missing pack_header)

Comment 8 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-10 14:15:08 CEST

*** Bug 5320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => theamazingchiepoo

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-16 16:43:22 CEST

Fixed in GIT (for local install, aka hd/dvd, not for network ones which would need to download huge hdlist)

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Summary: Please add package summaries back to the individual selection (missing pack_header) => Please add package summaries back to the individual selection