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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030102 Description of problem: Since the information sent to rhn-applet-gui contains the packages available, the errata or security advisor information would be nice to see without having to start up2date. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description 2. 3. Additional info:
Well that's not possible without duplicating up2date capabilities in the applet. The code of the applet is big enough. Why don't you want to start up2date ? That seems the real question to me, but I don't see any compelling point justifying duplicating code. Daniel
You're indeed correct - the applet _is_ big enough considering its memory requirements. 2507 myohe 15 0 16208 14M 10380 S 0.7 1.9 0:28 rhn-applet-gui I don't see how you would be duplicating up2date capabilities - you're simply informing the user what packages are available (already done) and the notifications with the update (not done). For my Pentium 4 2.4GHz workstation, invoking up2date is not really a problem - it only takes about 15 seconds to get to the point where I can read what is actually "fixed" by the update. For my other P2-400MHz workstation, it takes a pretty good bit of time (definitely more than 15 seconds). The point being was that rhn-applet-gui obviously knows _something_ about the update since it's displaying information for the end user. I didn't realize it was going to make things difficult/complicated to simply download the advisory information along with the packages that were available for update. *shrug*
> I don't see how you would be duplicating up2date capabilities Those are offered by up2date. That uses DIFFERENT interfaces and code to get those informations tnat the ones used to provide the current check in the applet. The up2date check MUST STAY LIGHT in term of data exchange and code involved. What you are asking is to add this code which is present in up2date and put it in the applet checking path and I tell you I will not duplicate that code nor increase the pressure on the RHN servers needed to extract those informations. The applet gives a quick check status, period. The full operational code is in up2date. I will not migrate those advanced up2date capabilities in the applet. That's not it's role. Daniel