Yum Extender

I have added support for sortable columns, it is not enabled by default but have to be activated in Edit -> Preferences, because it make package view population slower.

Yum Extender 2.9.7 has just been released and 2.9.6 was released a couple weeks ago.

Changes:

• Added  ‘–disable-netcheck’ to bypass the network connection check and the  auto disable of non local repos, this can be enabled/disabled in the Preferences.
• Lot of bugfixes and translation updates.

changelog.

Get the source here.

2.9.7 is  available in updates-testing for F12 and F11.

2.9.6 is availabe in updates for F11 & F12

Yum Extender 2.9.5 has just been released.

Changes:

• All repo deselection/selection by clicking on selection column header multiple times
• Run yumex gui  as root ny adding ‘–root’ at command line (Removable media support will not work as root)
• lot of bugfixes to make yumex more stable and handle problems better
• lot of translation updates (Thanks to all Translators)

changelog.

Get the source here.

Will be available in updates-testing for F12 and F11 very soon.

SELinux issue fixed in selinux-policy-3.6.32-36 in Fedora

* Thu Oct 29 2009 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> 3.6.32-36
- Change labeling of /usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend

Yum Extender 2.9.4 has just been released.

Changes:

• yum history support.
  • list, undo and redo previous yum transactions
• bugfixes.

changelog.

Get the source here.

Fedora 12 Koji rpm here. (We been available in Fedora 12 updates after the F12 release)

Fedora 11 Koji rpm here. (Will be in updates-testing later)

There is a selinux issues in Yum Extender 2.9.x in Fedora 12 (Beta) and F11.

It will give problems when installing new kernels

you will get messages like this

13:33:46 : YUM: /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 292: /sbin/depmod: Permission denied
13:34:05 : YUM: /usr/bin/ldd: line 118: /sbin/udevd: Permission denied

It is caused by /usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend is not labeled correctly.

Run the following commands as root to fix it.

chcon system_u:object_r:rpm_exec_t:s0  /usr/share/yumex/yumex-yum-backend
restorecon -r /usr/share/yumex

I have requested it to added to standard SELinux policy in Fedora.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527528

To fix an already installed kernel in F12.

$ rpm -q kernel-PAE --scripts | grep -e '--install'
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-PAE --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE || exit $?

copy the /sbin/new-kernel-pkg command and run it as root.

/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel-PAE --mkinitrd --dracut --depmod --install 2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE

if you are using a non PAE system then substitute ‘kernel-PAE’ with ‘kernel’ in the rpm -q command.

Just added support for yum transaction history in yumex

Yum transaction history is available in yum-3.2.25 in the Fedora 12 Beta, it contains information of the packages processed in each historical transaction and give you the choice to redo and undo the transaction

Yet another Yum Extender release

Changes:

• Added ‘Right Click‘ menu to Repository Page
  • Persistent enable/disable of repo
  • Clean metadata etc.
• Added ‘–win-size’ command line option to set size of gui window and make it possible to make the window smaller for small displays (netbooks etc)
  • –win-size=800×600 will make the main gui window 800×600
• Updated translations (Big Thanks to translators)
• bugfixes

Get the source here

Fedora 12 / Rawhide package here

Fedora 11 packages here.

I have released a new version of Yum Extender (NextGen)

Changes:

• Added the ‘Select All’ button to updates view again
• Make group selection not remove already installed group packages
• Translation updates (Big Thanks to all translators.
• Also search in descriptions
• Other minor bug fixes.

Get the source here

Fedora 12 / Rawhide package here

Fedora 11 packages here.

A brand new release of the Yum Extender (NextGen)

Changes:

• Added All filter to show all packages.
• Added Categories filter to show packages by category.
  • By Repository : Show packages categorized by repository.
  • By Size : Show packages categorized by size.
• Added Network detection using NetworkManager.
  • Disable remote repositories if there is no network connection.
• More translations (Big Thanks to all translators !).
• Change the time for root logon to backend from 5 min to 30 min.

Yum Extender 2.9.1 is a development release, but it should be quite stable.

The rpms for F12 should hit rawhide very soon and rpms for F11 is available here.

The source can be found here.