Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > "I don't use the group selection - because this is where you get into > trouble. Under certain circumstances causes pirut to blow up. Try to > pile up a LOT of packages quickly with the GROUP line and watch it blow > up. I'd have to try it again to remember the details but it was too > painful that I don't want to go there right now." > > I am unable to crash Pirut on the latest releases unlike the earlier > versions. It would be quite helpful if you can try to reproduce this > problem and file a bug report on this with the steps. Its hard to fix > issues unless we get specific feedback with the ability to reproduce > problems. > > > " > Note that when you make a selection for installation > and follow through to have the selected packages > successfully install, the pruit program immediately > terminates when I wanted to select more packages > forcing me to start the program over again. In > cases where there was a PROBLEM - this was VERY > annoying because I lost the selections and cannot > remember what I selected beforehand." > > I have filed a RFE on this earlier. Refer to > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182499. The user > interface and the internals of Pirut is designed to enable the user to > select multiple package and complete it in a single transaction. > > > > > " > Thanks for your patience and listening to my pointed > gripes. 3 days and 5GB downloads and returning back > to square one makes one really, really antsy and > irrational." > > As a fellow tester I agree that it can be annoying at times but thats > part of the ups and downs of using a development or test releases as a > early adopter. If your idea of fun is watching programs gleefully blow > up now and then, following it by aggressively and methodologically > filing bug reports and discussing issues in the development/test lists > then you are a ideal candidate for being a tester. > > To end this ongoing complaint why not just add an 'INSTALL EVERYTHING' button< with really BIG warnings what this means, that installs the whole package? I Mean EVERYTHING! The WHOLE 5 CD's. Or someday 6 CD's. Or 7. Or whatever number. Then they can complain that TOO MUCH STUFF that I did not want installed was installed and that it 'took too long'. -- David
