[CentOS-devel] yumex-2.0 in testing

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 09:28 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On 8/18/07, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yumex-2.0 is now available in the testing repository for centos-5, this is the
> > first stable release from Tim, meant for the EL5 platform. As always, please
> > leave feedback so we might be able to move this into centos-extras.
> >
> > Information on the testing repository including usage is available at
> > http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
> >
> > - KB
> 
> Installed on both i686 and x86_64.  I have some notes about this version.
> 
> (1) I unselected the autorefresh option in Preferences. This changed the
> line "autorefresh=" in /etc/yumex.conf from "1" to "no".  However,
> upon next start, refreshing still takes place.  Could someone test on
> this?

Tested on i386.  Can't discern any difference in behavior with the
following:

autorefresh = 1
autorefresh = no
autorefresh = 0
No autorefresh entry in /etc/yumex.conf

Would be nice if yumex made a backup of the config file as opposed to
silently clobbering it.  Seems to make quite a lot of changes when
simply trying to toggle one flag:

# diff yumex.conf_orig yumex.conf
2,18c2,4
< autorefresh = 1
< recentdays = 14
< proxy =
< exclude =
< debug = 0
< color_install = darkgreen
< color_update = red
< color_normal = black
< color_obsolete = blue
< filelist = 0
< changelog = 0
< plugins = 1
< usecache = 0
< fullobsoletion = 0
< yumdebuglevel = 2
<
<
---
> autorefresh = no
> exclude =
> proxy =

> 
> (2) Just a wish list. I would like to see the "Select All" and
> "Deselect All" buttons like earlier versions in addition to (or
> instead of) "Add All" and "Remove All".
> 
> (3) When repolist gets out of testing, will it be possible to
> integrate it in yumex? It will be very nice to be able to see all
> repos with priorities etc.
+1

/etc/yumex.profiles.conf does not end with a newline.

The "Group View" check box doesn't seem to to do much.  Noticed that
"Development/Development Tools" was not checked despite the fact that I
have extensive development tools installed.  Toggling the check put an
icon on the line, but added nothing to the queue to process.  On
restarting the box is again un-checked.

Basic package installation works OK.

Phil