Re: [Fwd: Gnome RPM Configuration Help]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I would be interested in what people think about this.  The rpmfind code
in gnorpm is not perfect, and could do with a bit of tuning.  You can
currently disable distributions by setting their rating to -1.

It would be useful to have the have some distributions turned off by
default.  I don't know if turning all but one is such a great idea though
(the user will often want one of the contrib archives at least).

For most people's systems, it is best to turn off some distributions (eg.
SuSE and Red Hat often have conflicting package names, so you probably
only want to search for either SuSE or Red Hat packages, but not both.
There are some small incompatibilities in the other distributions, but the
RH/SuSE one is the biggest.

The current code can already eliminate packages for the wrong
architecture, so it is not necessary to exclude other architectures from
the allowed distribution list.

Does anyone have any ideas about what the best way to handle this is?

James.

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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> > The distributions page allows you to place ratings on the different
> > distributions that are indexed on the rpmfind server.  It also allows you
> > to specify your favourite mirror.  If you are using the www.redhat.com
> > metadata server (the default for binary distributed with RH6).  On the
> > other hand, if you use the larger rpmfind.net server, there are about 90
> > distributions, so you may want to give the rpmfind code some hints as to
> > what to pick (for a start, if you are using a red hat based distribution,
> > set the SUSE distributions in the list to -1, so they don't get chosen).
> > If you want, don't even worry about this page.
> 
>   James,
> 
>  my analysis of the feedback I got from rpmfind users tends to prove that
> it's a not well know feature. Maybe a simplistic default option like
> "fetch only from the iinstalled distribution" turned on by default would
> avoid troubles. This would also I guess cover distributors concerns, and
> avoid them having the default setup pointing to a reduced metadata base
> like RedHat did for 6.0.
>  Then being able to pick in a menu a set of other distribs and "add them"
> would allow "experienced users" to have a richer set to choose from (however
> source package queries should really search the full set).
> 
> Daniel
> 
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