Bug 47643 - [RFE] update packages as a whole
Summary: [RFE] update packages as a whole
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 28585 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-06 11:23 UTC by Mike Chambers
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2004-04-05 20:13:09 UTC
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Description Mike Chambers 2001-07-06 11:23:24 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
I think adding an option to allow updating the package/component as a 
whole would be nice.  Such as updating/installed KDE as a whole instead of 
one package at a time.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.up2date package
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  It only updates the package name your specifiy and 
immediate dependencies involved but not the whole kit and kaboodle.

Expected Results:  Add an option or function to allow to update the whole 
package completely, such as up2date KDE would install all of KDE, or 
up2date GNOME would install all the gnome components.

Additional info:

You could add an option to up2date such as --complete so when you 
do "up2date --complete kdebase", it see's you want to update kdebase and 
seeign the --complete would mean you want to update all of KDE not just 
immediate dependencies involved.

Or add names to the components as a whole such as "update APACHE" would 
update/install ALL apache components that goes with it not just the 
dependencies that go with it.

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2001-07-06 18:37:17 UTC
A future version of up2date may include support for installing
"comps" (aka, stuff like "gnome workstation" or "news server" from the
installer...) and/or package groups (aka, "Games", "Applications/Databases",
"Applications/Multimedia", etc). 



Comment 2 Mike Chambers 2001-07-06 20:49:53 UTC
If you go this sort of route, maybe add a package file on cd or something so 
that you can tell what packages go with what comps or system or whatever it 
is.  Maybe even include it in the rpm package to look it up like you can a file 
to a package, except add a what package to what comps or whatever.

Example..

rpm -qp kdebase would show it belongs to comps KDE or whatever.

Comment 3 panu.matilainen 2001-07-11 08:58:13 UTC
While at it: adding support for wildcards would go some way towards the same
result. Something like "update kde.\*" which would install all the packages
beginning with "kde" and their dependencies.

Comment 4 Adrian Likins 2002-05-16 19:20:25 UTC
*** Bug 28585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Mike Chambers 2003-04-03 03:19:23 UTC
ping

Comment 6 Adrian Likins 2004-04-05 20:13:09 UTC
fedora has support for both "comps" and globs,
aka

up2date "kde*"

or `up2date "@KDE Desktop Environment"`




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