On Jun 30, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Nathanael Noblet wrote:
> #1) Easy way to know where a package came from.
man repoquery
> #2 ) Easy way to downgrade if I were to run into problems
yum downgrade packagename
> #3) Reminders
bodhi -T
I presume a fedora account with certs are required for this?
> #4) Easy way to update the karma on packages I've installed
fedora-easy-karma
> #5) Easy way to turn on/off my willingness to use updates-testing.
yum --disablerepo=updates-testing
or
{editor} /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
So those are great, and some of it like bodhi -T I didn't know about. However I'm
trying to suggest that a complete guified (granted that with some tests it could stop
working) be built to let some find/test/provide feedback for certain packages.
Even if it was a gui that did yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --disablerepo=*
check-update to give you a list of potential updates worth testing, you could check some
off and get them installed, then using bodhi -T for one screen to show the ones you *do*
have installed. Buttons on the list to provide karma or request a downgrade etc.. with
something like that you could even drop req #5 as it would be a self contained program.
Anyway, just a suggestion and it looks even closer to doable with all those pre-existing
tools.
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Nathanael d. Noblet