Bug 345015

Summary:	ctrl and shift select / deselect multiple packages.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	mmeeks
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Caleb Cushing 2007-11-29 19:02:21 UTC

in order to update some or most of my packages from other mirrors I have check the installed packages and right click update if necessary. select all doesn't work for me because of one package set having dependancy issues. but sometimes there's like 8 packages in a row that I'd like to be able to perform the operation on all at once. or to be able to select all and then deselect the ones that have issues.

Comment 1 Cyril Hrubis 2007-11-30 12:16:34 UTC

What tool are you speaking about, yast2 packager, YOU, opensuse-updater-kde, opensuse-updater-gnome... ?

Comment 2 Caleb Cushing 2007-12-01 15:47:13 UTC

Help says this "The YaST Package Manager". if that doesn't help, I'm using the kde version, launch yast2, and click software management.

Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2007-12-04 13:36:07 UTC

That would make internal handling and (worse) error handling pretty nightmarish.

But there are also keyboard shortcuts for those kinds of actions, which seem a lot more appropriate for your use case. For multi-selection you'd need to remember a key combination, too (ctrl + mouse button or shift + mouse button).

For your specific use case, there are these keys:

'>'   Set to "update" if a newer version is available,
      then move down to the next package

'+'   Install if it isn't installed yet, set to "update" if it is already
      installed and a newer version is available,
      then move down to the next package

'<'   Set to "keep" if it currently has status "update",
      then move down to the next package

The key combinations are documented in the menus, both the "package" pull-down menu and the context menu you will get with right mouse button on a package.


You see it's all there.