From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 Description of problem: When there are errors or exceptions when, for example, installing or uninstalling a component, gnorpm pops up a separate dialog for every problem. This is ridiculous. Instead, it should open a scrolling window where all bugs can be written and where the user does not have to keep hitting okay to get the process finished. This problem has been in every release of gnorpm so far, but it should be gone by now. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. pick a component to uninstall that has a collection of documentation which is installed with it (the docs should have at least a few files to see how annoying this bug is). 2. remove all the documentation for the component with 'rm'. don't use gnorpm at this point, just whack the files. 3. uninstall the component with gnorpm. Actual Results: you will be required to hit okay on an error dialog for every missing file. this will happen for every single error seen by gnorpm, including other errors besides missing files. Expected Results: the list of errors should be presented as a single entity rather than as a zillion dialogs that each disappear after okay is hit. this allows one to (1) not break his wrist, and (2) see the whole history of the problems in one view. Additional info:
Seems like a reasonable suggestion. Thanks for the request.
sorry about the tone of the original bug report... anyway, i wanted to explain that multiple dialog pops could happen in a number of ways... some are obvious, while others probably won't happen too often. 1) if there are files remaining when a package upgrade expects them to be gone, one gets a complaint per file or directory. 2) in packages gotten off the net, sometimes the user is left as the creator's user id. then one gets a complaint about the user not existing for every item in the package. 3) my recent install was troubled by very low disk space. in addition to whacking numerous packages with gnorpm, i also did a bad thing by deleting a few whole hierarchies of man pages and stuff. this caused hundreds of the dialogs. i know that's bad, but i was desperate to finish the install and provide enough disk space for it to complete, plus this is a very slow system which is painful to delete multiple packages from using gnorpm. so these are a few of the ways i've seen many dialogs appear. hope this makes it seem slightly more useful to do the bug window suggestion... i know i would appreciate it a great deal, but i think others might also. thanks... -fred
In order to get the developers and maintainers of GnoRPM to look at this bug I have moved it to the GnoRPM category in the Gnome bug tracker. It can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58177, where you can add yourself to the cc-field if you want to recieve information about changes to the bug status.