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Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

I don't think HAM handles this, either, in which case the package should automatically handle this, such as making a backup and silently overwriting. Since this is an app for Maemo, the official installation method is via UI.

IMO, this is package side. At least warn that it requires CLI installation.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by ndi (Post 760915)

It doesn't require CLI installation unless the config file it's trying to install already exists (and isn't from a previous version of the package). This will be the same for absolutely every package which is installing something under /etc. I'll uninstall & retry this with HAM and see whether it copes or not.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 760938)

Could you send me the logs (the exact output of apt-get and dpkg) when this happens?

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by hqh (Post 760951)

Could you send me the logs (the exact output of apt-get and dpkg) when this happens?

I've managed to test & reproduce this. HAM handles this situation without any problems (it seems to answer Y to the question below). Here's the log for fapman (I killed the dpkg process at the end):

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--- 2010-07-22 16:45:40 ---
/usr/bin/apt-get -qsy --allow-unauthenticated --auto-remove install backupmenu
--- 2010-07-22 16:45:53 ---
Output from last process:
---
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
backupmenu
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Inst backupmenu (0.30-2 Extras-devel:2.0/fremantle)
Conf backupmenu (0.30-2 Extras-devel:2.0/fremantle)

--- 2010-07-22 16:45:55 ---
/usr/bin/apt-get -qy --allow-unauthenticated --auto-remove install backupmenu
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
backupmenu
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 9628B of archives.
After this operation, 77.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
backupmenu
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/free backupmenu 0.30-2 [9628B]
Fetched 9628B in 3s (2807B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package backupmenu.
(Reading database ... 49172 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking backupmenu (from .../backupmenu_0.30-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up backupmenu (0.30-2) ...

Configuration file `/etc/bootmenu.d/BackupMenu.item'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** BackupMenu.item (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 760987)

I've managed to test & reproduce this. HAM handles this situation without any problems (it seems to answer Y to the question below). Here's the log for fapman (I killed the dpkg process at the end):

Will be fixed in the next version. I made it assume yes like HAM does.

I'll still try if I can make it prompt the user instead, but probably that's out of the question...

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

Could you make it to automatically select all updates so we don't have to tap each one of them manually?

Thanks

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

Only today I got to install Fapman and have to tell that It is absolutely amazing. So fast.

Of the things that I hated most in my N900, one was the App Manager and the second one was the Phone app. fapman solves one issue. Waiting for a similar solution to the other one.

Thank You @hqh for your wonderful work.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by vkv.raju (Post 761135)

And with the increasing number of repositories and apps it was a nightmare to use. I just hope one day this will completely replace the app manager!

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

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Originally Posted by Bec (Post 761128)

Could you make it to automatically select all updates so we don't have to tap each one of them manually?

Thanks

There's "Update all" in menu (tap the title bar in upgrade view) so you don't have to tap each one.

Re: [Announce] Faster Application Manager (Maemo5)

Could you please add tabs for "Conflicts" and "Dependencies" like HAM does? Would be nice to know in advance for each package.