Small up2date annoyance
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Fri Feb 11 02:25:38 UTC 2005
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
>> I don't know if there is a bug already filed in bugzilla for this,
>> I haven't noticed this until my girlfriend pointed it out. We've been
>> Red Hat users since back in version 5.2, but anyway, the point is we,
>> and more specifically she is familiar with up2date and likes to use
>> it very much. As of late she made an observation: up2date fails to
>> report the size of the packages when it lists the available packages
>> for download and lets you choose them... I did not notice it, but
>> then she pointed out that since FC1 this happens, not even in Red Hat
>> 9... That got me intrigued and as such I dare to ask here... Why are
>> packages sizes not listed? I actually remember that up2date in RH 7.3
>> and 9 did report the size of the files and an estimation of the total
>> amount you would download in that particular up2date session, so (I
>> assume) you make the decision how much you'd like to download. I did
>> a small search of the archives (in the nntp server) but found nothing
>> and another search in bugzilla did not yield results (mind you very
>> fast search), so I resulted asking you guys...
>>
>
> When you got the updates from the RHN network accounts before, there
> was information that could be used to determine the filesize. The yum
> repos have no such filesize information to use for up2date to use for
> this feature that RHN was able to display.
>
> I've been using up2date since it appeared and also have used versions
> of RHL from 5,2 on. I guess using this program has some addictive
> effect. I use yum on occasion, mostly when up2date is completely
> uusable for short time periods.
>
> Jim
>
Using Up2date on FC2, I do not see size estimates for individual files
but I do see an estimate of the total amount you would download with the
selected packages.
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