FC3 - Has the community given up on up2date?

Alexandre Strube surak at casa.surak.eti.br
Thu Nov 11 21:04:09 UTC 2004


Em Qui, 2004-11-11 às 19:55, Ken Snider escreveu:

> That argument is a red herring. Are you more likely to break, for example, 
> your python install than, say, the more-often-updated glibc install (which 
> would break all package managers, really)?

Yes!! It is more likely - It happened a dozen times with fedora 1 & 2.
Never got a problem with glibc, altough.

> > up2date can't handle 404s, it just dies. up2date's gui will blank out all
> > important information. I'm guessing it's a threading problem - I don't
> > know.
> *shrug* I use the text version. However bugs are bugs - they need to be fixed, 
> and I certainly wouldn't call the bugs described above the reason to jettison 
> a whole app.

Up2date takes forever on EVERY computer I tested. And forget about using
anything on the same desktop. It looks like a bad multithreaded app.







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