On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:09, Mike Chambers wrote: > In synaptic, your able to see/view packages, as part of the repository > that your connecting to, that are not installed on your system. You may > then select those and add them. > > On up2date, you can only update packages already installed, but no way > to view what you don't have already. > > I know add/remove packages allows you to do this, but only for CD of the > core distro? Or can it do what I am referring to already? > > And if not, any chance it's been thought over to add this functionality > to up2date GUI? OK, I believe some of the functionality is there now! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73715 The above bug report points out that --show-package-dialog does not work properly. Try installing an "old" package (I used redhat-config-packages from the test3 since I consider it more or less useless as it is). Then invoke up2date from the command line and specify --show-package-dialog After the screen showing the pending update, you will then get a screen showing the other packages available. Part of the problem of not showing this dialog if no updates are pending is the sys.exit(0) at line 1555 of /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py will kick out if there are no updates. I have tried commenting line 1555 out (do at your own risk) and, although the display is not "clean", it now somewhat works and displays uninstalled packages for the channels chosen. I have also submitted: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109723 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109678 Mike, I have been think on this and I really believe that redhat-config-packages and up2date should be merged. Most of the needed functionality is already in up2date. -- Gene
