#12959 closed bug (invalid)
Confusing pkgman interaction
| Reported by: | axeld | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Applications/Command Line Tools | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
When I update Haiku via pkgman update, the following text is shown:
Continue? [yes/no] (yes) : *** please enter 'yes' or 'no'
The "(yes)" Usually means that it's the default, and that I just have to press enter to continue.
Continue? [yes/no] (yes) : y
And even if it demanded a "yes" or "no", it will happily accept a "y", too.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Well, either the "(yes)" should be removed, or just pressing enter should be accepted as a "yes". I would go with accepting just enter, just like we would if this was a graphical app and the same request was shown in a window. Having to type y + enter is a bit annoying for such a simple operation (and mostly harmless, since you can rollback to an older state if things go wrong anyway).
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
Often times when doing a pkgman full-sync, there will installed packages built from souces in haikuporter, that it will try to revision down. I like having the option to say "no" and just do a pkgman update in those cases.
follow-up: 6 comment:5 by , 8 years ago
Yes, saying "no" should be an option of course.
The thing is, either the message should be:
Continue? [yes/no]:
And the user will have to type "y" or "n" or "yes" or "no" to continue.
OR, the message stays as it is:
Continue? [yes/no] (yes) :
In that case, just pressing "enter" does the same as "y" or "yes". It is still possible to enter "n" or "no".
comment:6 by , 8 years ago
Replying to pulkomandy:
Continue? [yes/no] (yes) :In that case, just pressing "enter" does the same as "y" or "yes". It is still possible to enter "n" or "no".
That's exactly how it behaves right now. Am I misunderstanding the issue?
comment:7 by , 8 years ago
If I read Axel's bug report correctly, pressing enter led to a *** please enter 'yes' or 'no', and adding an 'y' was required?
comment:8 by , 8 years ago
Nope. At least with hrev50531, it behaves like your second suggestion: the enter key behaves like typing "y" or "es".
follow-up: 10 comment:9 by , 8 years ago
I just pressed "enter", and it did come up with that response, so yes, Adrien did understand the report correctly :-) I just updated an older install of Haiku (from February), and there it worked okay (still with y/n). However, I can't be absolutely sure, though, that I didn't accidentally press some invisible key before the "enter". I can't test again right now, though, until a new release comes along :-)
comment:10 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Replying to axeld:
However, I can't be absolutely sure, though, that I didn't accidentally press some invisible key before the "enter".
I had a slightly older hrev that I could experiment on. It really does work as expected, and I think your hypothesis of having something put in accidentally before hitting Enter is probably correct.
Let's close the ticket until someone can reproduce the issue.
Not a bug, but intentional convenience, IIRC. It used to be "Continue? [y/n]". To make it more user friendly it was rephrased to be more like plain English. The old one-letter answers were kept for convenience. As it's very unlikely to enter a "y" if you really meant to enter a "n", I think it's OK as it is now.