update-manager no longer shows where it's downloading from

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Wishlist: Karmic's update-manager doesn't show the source of the downloads. In Jaunty, you could click on details and it would show output indicating where it was getting the packages during the update or upgrade process. In Karmic, 'details' is greyed out.

The advantage for me is that I use a mirror where my download bandwidth isn't monitored, so I use this to check I'm not accidentally eating into my monthly quota after having misconfigured my repository sources.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 8 16:56:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.125.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

update-manager 1:0.126.2 now shows the file download location, which is great. Is this perhaps because it switched back from using apt-daemon?

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Are you still having this problem?
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[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Yes, indeed. The latest update-manager in Natty only shows that it is downloading something, not from where.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Of course, this is just a wishlist item and not particularly important. I'd say there are far more important things to work on (eg making unity launcher work properly with Java apps or integrating all the missing settings into the systems settings dialog in Oneiric).

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Reassigning to aptdaemon, as the dialogs shown in update-manager are in the aptdaemon package.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

We show the URL of the package which gets downloaded as a tooltip and during the cache update we show the repository names now.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

Thanks, that looks great.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Thanks. In the future I would like to integrate python-software-properites and show the names corrresponding to the software sources dialog.