up2date is still a nightmare

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Wed Aug 11 09:32:31 UTC 2004


up2date is still being quite unusable in some situations. Obviously it
is not able to cope with hight trafic and/or a slow response time. 

- the mirror selection feature is a progress, compared to FC1, but it is
still quite dumb in selecting mirrors. It doesn't use one in vicinity.
especially useless for non US users

- the progress dialog "testing package set / solving RPM dependencies"
lacks of any user feedback if there is some problem with the connection.
It seems to hang forever.

Fortunately we have yum. up2date should become deprecated.



Peter





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