[packagekit] some more impressions

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 18:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>   
>> Today I had the chance to  watch packagekit perform an update.
>>
>> I'm not entirely convinced that the double progressbar is more
>> informative than confusing. If you want to keep it, there are some
>> details that need improvement:
>>     
>
> Feedback is great, thanks.
>
>   
>> - I saw the "part" progressbar go to 100% several times without the description
>> changing; it always stayed at "libuser".
>>     
>
> Yes, I see this too. if you do
> sudo /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/update-system.py you should get a
> "package downloading foo;bar;baz" for each new download, but don't. Tim
> - do you see this too?
>   
No, I get this when running update-system.py
> package downloading     libuser;0.56.6-1.fc8;i386;development   A user 
> and group account administration library
> subpercentage   47
> subpercentage   94
> subpercentage   100
> subpercentage   0
> package downloading     isomd5sum;11.3.0.47-1;i386;development  
> Utilities for checking/implanting md5sums into ISO images
> subpercentage   100
> subpercentage   0

>   
>> - Later on, I saw the full summary line of the gedit package show up
>> as the description, which made the dialog resize. I think it would be
>> better to keep it
>> to just the package name for this: Downloading gedit/Installing
>> gedit/Cleaning up gedit
>>     
>
> Sure, that's sane. Fixed in 1d7bf06d603b7fe9d57e4e63d3d8ca875f3fdf43
>
>   
>> - For downloading, every package was treated as a separate part, while
>> for installing and cleaning up, that seemed to be not the case
>>     
>
> Sure, that's a backend thing - it's up to the backend to define what
> sub-transactions are in the bigger transaction.
>
>   
>> - The terminology for the cleanup part is less than ideal: "Removing"
>> might make people wonder if the package updater runs wild and removes
>> their applications.
>> "Cleaning up" sounds move less alarming
>>     
>
> Hmm, I never thought of this. Maybe we need an explicit enum "cleanup"
> rather than "removing" when yum is updating. Can yum distinguish the
> difference between removing a package, and removing an old version due
> to an upgrade?
>   
Yes, it can
 Tim
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