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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Simplify the yast2 inst_source configuration | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 | Reporter: | Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer> |
| Component: | YaST2 | Assignee: | Ladislav Slezák <lslezak> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P2 - High | CC: | bugz57 |
| Version: | Alpha 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 10.3 | ||
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| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Screenshot of Media Type Menu
Screenshot of "Server and Directory" Menu Screenshot of "No valid Linux partitions found" Screenshot of "System Repair" Scrrenshot of "Reapair Toolbox" |
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Description
Casual J. Programmer
2007-05-02 06:08:32 UTC
Created attachment 136885 [details]
Screenshot of Media Type Menu
Created attachment 136886 [details]
Screenshot of "Server and Directory" Menu
This could be completely replaced by the "Enter URL.." item.
It would be nice to have just two medium types ("Scan using SLP" and "Specify URL...") but think about some non-trivial URL - with user name, password or port number.
I don't think that everybody knows that e.g. FTP URL is entered as
ftp://[user[:password]@]host[:port]/path. It really helps in this situation to have the extra widgets for the user name and password and compose the URL in Yast.
To the extra sources: We cannot offer Packman for legal reasons :-(
The list of extra repositories is on openSUSE.org (http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories), I think it's really easy to add a new source using the page. Maybe it should be better documented (in the release notes and in the documentation).
There is a popup window which offers some extra sources during installation (after online update IIRC). But it should be possible to do it also in run-time...
"but think about some non-trivial URL" when would you use this in a standard insatllation ? If that is REALLY the case, it's a special situation and the additional information could be asked for. Created attachment 137387 [details]
Screenshot of "No valid Linux partitions found"
Created attachment 137388 [details]
Screenshot of "System Repair"
Created attachment 137390 [details]
Scrrenshot of "Reapair Toolbox"
"Verify Installed Software" is not "Rebuild rpm database", so this feature is missing fro yast2 repair
Disregard comment #5 to comment #7, they belong to Bug 270231 I'll drink to this suggestion and suggest to make it priority major. Configuring sources is a pain and a half, times ten. Re #3: agree that a user does not know how to construct a URL. How about a single window/tab there, with URL:_______ at the bottom, and above it radio buttons, drop-downs, or text fields as appropriate for protocol (http, ftp, etc), user name, password, server name, server path, whatnot? With the URL input field line at the bottom being updated to a complete URL each time the user adds a component? Like this: Area 1: [radiobutton] SLP (automatic, search for sources on LAN) Area 2: [dropdown protocol] [text field user name] [text field password] [text field server name] [text field server path] and anything else necessary for the protocol selected. Area 3: URL: [text field] A complete URL can be pasted in here, or is inserted by selections in area 2. 2 more things I find really inadequate: There needs to be a list of suggested installation sources like OSS, non-OSS, debug, factory, non-free which the user only needs to tick to have them added. If this isn't added to 10.3 I'll get a patent on a "one-click repo adder" ;) Sending the user off to go surfing for repo suggestions and the openSUSE wiki just to get a few more OSS packages is good enough for gentoo or debian, but not for SUSE. Changing the enabled or refresh status of an installation source should be in tabular form like this: Enabled Refresh Source URL [ ] [ ] 10.3 OSS http://download.opensuse/bla/bla [ X ] [ X ] 10.3 Updates ftp://mirror.local/pub/path [ X ] [ ] 10.3 DVD cdrom:// And should not have this user-unfriendly drop-down menu in the bottom right corner which changes status for the currently highlighted source. Setting the priority of this enhancement to high, because installation sources are far too difficult and complex, esp for newcomers. Can't be solved for 10.3 ---> LATER Anyway, there already are 'Community Repositories' that allow you to select from list of suggested repositories (downloaded from web). Search for them in the "Software" selection in YaST Control Center. It seems that the problems are fixed in 11.0: - URL dialog now contain a radio button for editing the complete URL at once - community repositories module (which can simply add OSS, debug... repositories) has been integrated in to the repository manager |