Yum Extender

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

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.

Yum Extender 2.9.0 has been released.

It is the first real release of the NextGen Code stream.

Yum Extender 2.9.0 has been rewritten from scratch to make it easier to maintain and add new features.

One of the mayor differences is that the GUI and the yum backend has been separeted, so the GUI runs as a normal user and only yum backend there is performing the yum action is spawned as a child process running as root. So when you start yumex, you will get a consolehelper password prompt after the gui is shown. This password prompt can reappear when the yumbacked is restarted after running a long transaction.

Yum Extender 2.9.0 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.

I have just updated the Yum Extender NextGen preview release rpm to 2.9.0-0.4.pre

Find them here.

You can track the changes in the gitweb log

They will only work under Fedora 11, because i use some new GtkBuilder stuff not available i previous releases.

You can get a just release Fedora 11 Preview here.