Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed "check for updates"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:13:18PM +0100, RKI Andreas wrote:

>>>>    msg += _('Note, however, that this version may not yet be')
>>>>    msg += _('available *pre-packaged* for your system.')
>>>
>>> I'd rather interested in the condition under that this statement is
>>> displayed.
>>
>> if user has configured to check for upgrades
>>
>>      if check source is accessible
>>
>>              if user has configured to only check "his" branch
>>
>>                      if new version on this branch is available
>>
>>              if user has configured to check newer branches, too
>>
>>                      if new version on "his" or newer branch available
>>
>> Code is in gnumed/pycommon/gmTools.py::check_for_updates()
>
> But there is no check involved whether the new branch is *pre-packaged*
> or not.
That's right and this ...

> You would have to verify the distribution a user is currently
> running, have to check the according package pool and if you want to
> do the job completely in some cases you might even have to check other
> package pools (for instance if a user is running gnumed-client verison
> x_outdated on Ubuntu, but version y_uptodate is available for Debian
> which should work in principle).
... is why.

> I'd rather seek for a better wording than *pre-packaged* to express
> what you *really* mean.
Uhm, what *do* I mean, really ?

Karsten
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