----- "devzero2000" <devzero2...@rpm5.org> wrote: > Apart from the rest - of which i will ask for sponsorship when it > will > be - I wanted to know if there are plans to move to rpm5 by Mageia, > such as Mandriva has been doing lately.
> Rpm5 already has a builtbot > with Magela and rpm5. I can, if you can think useful or have plan for > this, lay the necessary modification to enter into rpm5 Mageia, with > the features of Mandriva cooker - fingerprint, syslog, etc. without > trademark ecc- and produce a first rpm rpm5 for mageia , which also > contains the functionality required by the passage to the "RPM > ACID " feauture (berkeley db conversion) But, can you: -ensure that all valid packages that build under rpm-4.x (e.g. in Mandriva 2010.x) will build under rpm5? -ensure that all valid packages that install under rpm-4.x will install under rpm-4.x? There is no document specifying what has changed, or even when highlighting changes, no-one (@rpm5.org, or @mandriva.com) has bothered to list them so that contributors can save time instead of troubleshooting breakage. Some issues that have impacted me so far: -changed behaviour of %exclude -new reserved macros (%sql) -possible race condition between %__os_install_post and processing of %files (.lzma man pages reported missing where they are in fact .xz) (and of course, the unavailability of the build system - during one of the periods I had the most time to work on packages - due to the rpm5 "upgrade") rpm5 has wasted more than half of the time I could afford to contribute to Mandriva. It seems Mandriva has resources to waste, I don't think we have. (At present, I am not sure if I will continue to maintain packages in Mandriva, the ones where I need newer packages on non-Mandriva at work which I currently maintain in Mandriva and then rebuild I will maintain for the present, but ones I don't need for work may languish ...) Regards, Buchan
