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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: gnome-apt
From:       Havoc Pennington <rhp () zirx ! pair ! com>
Date:       1999-08-10 3:25:04
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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> 
> Well... unfortunately I must tell you that from some time to now I've been having
> just the same problem with gnome-apt... It does the whole dowload of the ¨.deb¨s, and
> then just beeps and goes back to the initial window... 

Sure enough... I've fixed it in CVS. Also have another change or two 
that will go in soon, so we'll make a new release. The problem was that
libapt-pkg changed out from underneath gnome-apt, but the change wasn't
the kind of thing that would cause a compile failure. It was just a change
in library semantics. So gnome-apt wasn't checking for all the proper
circumstances.

It seems there's some new library feature to handle media swapping, I
don't see how that works yet so gnome-apt will somewhat ungracefully bail
out if media swapping is needed...

BTW the beep is normal, it beeps so you know it's done downloading...
I guess it seems a bit lame for small or nonexistent downloads.

Thanks for the report.

> Also, a qustion... couldn't gnome-apt (and apt-get) be set to resume downloading
> automatically until the doanload is finished (like wget does?)
> 

This is a libapt-pkg issue so I'll hand off to Jason - gnome-apt doesn't
do anything to determine this.

Havoc



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