Adding repositories to Adept

[Paul Kaplan]

On Saturday 03 June 2006 01:54, Christian Fröbel wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> for me the following worked:
>
> In Adept go to Manage Repositories.
> There, paste the repository line in the field near the bottom.
> Hit Add.
> Hit Apply.
> Hit Fetch Updates (which brings you back to the Package Selection)
> Hit Full Upgrade
> Hit Apply Changes (which starts the download/install)
>
> Then you should be done.
>
> Quite a long list of actions to be done for such an easy task, I think. I
> had problems using Adpet as well. For me it was not obvious how to use it.
> For example, after adding a repository to the list, I forgot to Apply,
> switched back to the Package Selection, and the repository I wanted to add
> was lost. Or, I expected the Full Upgrade to *do* the upgrade. I hit it
> several times wondering why nothing happened. Then I thought that maybe
> Apply Changes could help -- and it did. Also, switching between Repository
> Management and Package Selection in the way Adept does it, feels strange to
> me. Also what does Fetch Updates mean. Fetch Updates does not actually
> update something, I guess. Where is the difference between Update and
> Upgrade?
>
> Of course Adept is way better than using command line tools. But still
> there is a lot to improve, I think.
>
> Hope it works for you now.
>
> Would be interesting to know why it actually didn't work for you. Was it
> because Adept behaves in a way you didn't expect? Could be a good hint for
> the Adept developers. Hope the copy this thread.
>
> cheers,
>   Christian
I didn't hit "Full Upgrade" since, as you say, there's no documentation on 
exactly what that does.  However, I would have thought that after "Apply 
Updates", at least one of the filter combos would have revealed the3.5.3 
packages,.   (The same process showed Amarok 1.4 as upgradable.)  I'm 
wondering know whether the mirror I used wasn't up when I tried to upgrade.  

How does Adept inform the user that a repository isn't available?
I'm on a different box at the moment.  I'll try on Monday.
Paul