Jim Cornette wrote:
Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I don't know if there is a bug already filed in bugzilla for this,
I haven't noticed this until my girlfriend pointed it out. We've been
Red Hat users since back in version 5.2, but anyway, the point is we,
and more specifically she is familiar with up2date and likes to use
it very much. As of late she made an observation: up2date fails to
report the size of the packages when it lists the available packages
for download and lets you choose them... I did not notice it, but
then she pointed out that since FC1 this happens, not even in Red Hat
9... That got me intrigued and as such I dare to ask here... Why are
packages sizes not listed? I actually remember that up2date in RH 7.3
and 9 did report the size of the files and an estimation of the total
amount you would download in that particular up2date session, so (I
assume) you make the decision how much you'd like to download. I did
a small search of the archives (in the nntp server) but found nothing
and another search in bugzilla did not yield results (mind you very
fast search), so I resulted asking you guys...
When you got the updates from the RHN network accounts before, there
was information that could be used to determine the filesize. The yum
repos have no such filesize information to use for up2date to use for
this feature that RHN was able to display.
I've been using up2date since it appeared and also have used versions
of RHL from 5,2 on. I guess using this program has some addictive
effect. I use yum on occasion, mostly when up2date is completely
uusable for short time periods.
Jim
Using Up2date on FC2, I do not see size estimates for individual files
but I do see an estimate of the total amount you would download with the
selected packages.
