[Slapt-get-devel] Choose package to install

[Jason Woodward]

Hi Arnaldo,

> 	What do you think of the capability to choose the package to install
> when there's more than one pattern (package) found ? It looks nice to
> me. I've made a patch to illustrate the idea.

I don't like the idea of prompting the user for something like this.  If they want to install
based on the output of a search, it would be better accomplished via something like this:

slapt-get --search xfree | awk '{print $1}' | xargs slapt-get --install

If you want to specify the package, such as the case with aterm in your example, you can just
as easily specify the package version with the arch like so:

[root at slackumltest1 root 11:48 AM ]# !8
slapt-get --search aterm
aterm 0.4.2-i686-1 [inst=no]: aterm
aterm 0.4.2-i386-1 [inst=no]: aterm
aterm 0.4.2-i586-1 [inst=no]: aterm
[root at slackumltest1 root 11:48 AM ]# slapt-get --install aterm-0.4.2-i386-1 --simulate
Reading Package Lists... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aterm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 194K of archives.
After unpacking 640K of additional disk space will be used.
aterm-0.4.2-i386-1 is to be installed
Done


I think the above ways fulfill what you are trying to do just as easily without introducing
extra steps into the slapt-get code execution.


take care,
jason

--
Jason Woodward
woodwardj at jaos.org

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	Hello Jason,

	What do you think of the capability to choose the package to install
when there's more than one pattern (package) found ? It looks nice to
me. I've made a patch to illustrate the idea.
	The patch works on the install transaction. ie.:

root at minor:/home/arnaldo/slapt-get-0.9.8c-test# ./slapt-get --install
aterm
Reading Package Lists... Done
1: aterm 0.4.2-i486-1
2: aterm 0.4.2-i686-1
3: aterm 0.4.2-i386-1
4: aterm 0.4.2-i586-1
Which package do you want me to install ? (default: 4) 2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aterm 
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 195K of archives.
After unpacking 640K of additional disk space will be used.
Downloading http://slackpacks.tchelinux.com.br/ aterm 0.4.2-i686-1
[27K]...

	If you like it I can write it in a more elegant way (and adding a
command line option for it ?) and submit a patch.
	
	Take care.


-- 
Arnaldo de Moraes Pereira <arnaldo at sp-dhn.com.br>
DHN

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