Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

Michael J. Knox michael at knox.net.nz
Mon Apr 17 19:35:58 UTC 2006


Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 17-04-2006, pon o godzinie 20:21 +0200, Joost Soeterbroek
> napisał(a):
>> idea: YUM Fedora internal update server ('reposerver')
> So maybe let's make yum usable? :)
> How about:
> - ^C support! (Insert lots of curses here) Logging in as root on another
> console to killall -9 yum is boring.
> - showing download speed
> - not downloading older repo data than newer, but grabbed from another
> mirror earlier
> - incremental (differences (added/removed packages) only) repo data
> download
> - showing "real" ETA for all files, not the file being downloaded atm
> 
> Or maybe simply fix apt if it still has problems with dual-arch
> setups? :)
> 
> Oh, oh, and maybe someone can force pup to not freeze the UI for half an
> hour when it's downloading something (or not)? And, of course, showing
> some progress (yum isn't very good at it, but pup is just horrible) and
> good speed/ETA values won't hurt users ;)

+1 !

Those would be some awesome additions.

Michael




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