Package management tools

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:09:59PM +0100, Eric Feliksik wrote:
> I like the idea of http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagementTools .
> 
> I have some comments:
[..]
> 3) gnome-app-install currently looks weird at my installation:
> 	http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/1200348/pub/gnome-app-install.png
> The top and bottom texts look selected, and below "system services" the 
> screen is gray.

It is very much in development right now.

> 4) I now realise I have a lot to say about gnome-app-install's 
> shortcomings, but it's probably in very heavy development... Is it 
> useful to point to those shortcomings now, or should I wait till the 
> development is a bit further on?

Have a look at the summary of the BOF about the future of the package
managment tools https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagementTools

It may answer some of you questins. You are welcome to tell us what
you think about it of course. 

> 5) I think update-manager should display the number of megabytes that 
> need to be downloaded (and maybe the extra amount of diskspace that will 
> be used). It currently only shows the number of packages that's to be 
> installed.

That's a good idea, I'll add it to my local tree and make it part of
my next release.

> 6) If I open update-manager from command-line, and close it with the 'x' 
>  , the bash prompt doesn't return, and the program is still running. If 
> I ctrl-C it, it shows:
> <start of error>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 326, in ?
>     updatemanager.main()
>   File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 310, in main
>     gtk.main()
> KeyboardInterrupt
> <end of error>
> Closing with the "close" button works fine.
> But probably point 4) goes for update-manager too?

Yeah, it's in development as well. But it's fine to tell problems like
this one. This is actually a oversight and now fixed in my tree
(thanks!). 

> 7) Keep up the good work! Are the ideas for these apps documented 
> somewhere, so I can help giving ideas, or are the plans in the heads of 
> the developers, and should I wait till the programs are more mature?

There are those two wiki pages:
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagement
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PackageManagementTools

Comments are certainly welcome :)

thanks,
 Michael


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