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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Michael Vogt wrote:

> 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 :)

Cool, thanks!

> 
> 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 :)

Yeah, I noticed that much :)

        - Panu -