[CentOS-devel] Yum Extender 0.99 (Development) for CentOS 4.2

Sun Feb 12 07:55:29 UTC 2006
Tim Lauridsen <tla-ml at rasmil.dk>

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 21:00 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:12 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> > Hi
> > If you want to try out the latest bleeding development edition of Yum 
> > Extender 0.99
> > Then you can get it here.
> > 
> > http://linux.rasmil.dk/dnl/yumex-devel/centos4/099/
> 
> Installed/tested yumex-0.99.6-2.0.centos4.noarch.rpm from the above URL.
> Unlike the broken yumex-0.44-1.0.c4.noarch.rpm removed from the testing
> repo a month or so ago, this one seems functional.  There are quite a
> few messages to stdout but nothing fatal.  Tried repo configuration
> changes, package install/remove/update, and preference changes on
> package removal after install and everything seemed to work.
> 
> There are a couple of what look like minor GUI bugs to me in that check-
> marks on queued packages disappear when they are added, but this could
> be the intended behavior
It is the intended behavior at the moment.

>  - I'd just prefer that they remain checked
> until the queue is processed.  Also, it's not totally intuitive that one
> must click "Add to Queue" in addition to checking packages on the list.
> Perhaps going to the Queue should have the effect of adding the checked
> packages to the corresponding list.

I have tough about adding a graphic icon to the packages added to the
queue. 

> 
> Looks like a candidate for the testing repo to me.
> 
> Thanks for the package.
> 

Thanks for testing and for the feedback, it is that kind of feedback
that leads me in the right direction :-)

Tim