Re: [Synaptic-devel] Reinstall support (patch)

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:43:34AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:55, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Andrey Tarassov wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > Hi,
> >  
> > thanks for your feedback!
> > 
> > > I've looked deeper into apt's features and found certain things that 
> > > could implemented in synaptic as well. For example, I find it very 
> > > useful to have a possibility to reinstall packages. I have encountered 
> > > situations a couple of times when this feature helped me a lot, so I 
> > > think synaptic users would be interested in it as well.
> > 
> > Right. I added this to my todo list. It's probably not a big
> > issue. Please don't expect it too soon as we currently working a new
> > gui layout and so are pretty busy :)
> 
> Since you are busy and I had nothing better to do this evening... :)
> The attached patch implements package reinstall option for Synaptic.
> Sorry it's against 0.47 but I have hard time getting 0.48 to build and
> the svn-head is a bit too much in state of flux at the moment to know
> what crashes were introduced by me and what was there already :)
> 
> Can/will redo against a newer version if necessary once things stabilize
> in head a bit.
> 
> Oh and tested on FC1, didn't notice anything breaking but knock wood...

Thanks a lot for this patch. I ported it over to trunk/ and added it
as r730. I asked Sebastian to make a nice icon for reinstall :)

trunk needs a bit time to stabliize (we are doing a major rewrite of
the package display stuff) but it's on a good way (thanks to Gustavo
mainly :)

thanks,
 Michael

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