On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Fran�ois Pons wrote:

> Possible features of urpmi for next release :
> 
> * virtual medium (no need to update explicitely, only with synthesis ?).
> * delay before accepting using a package from a medium (cooker)
> * always ask confirmation if fuzzy search is used (even for 1 package)
> * on the fly sorting of media (according to regex like
>   file,rsync,ftp,http)
> * urpm centralized tools, as well as perl-URPM managing media.
> * p2p urpmi database (export database as magic synthesis)
> * -h by default for urpmi.addmedia
> * do install of package by groups which are shorter as possible (apt-get
>   like)
> * allow file conflicts error to be handled by recovering errors and try
>   again.
> * conflicts, provides and requires tag added for global rpm behaviour in
>   order to allow broken dependencies to be not resolved or to avoid
>   removing important package (generalize basesystem)
> 
> Any other idea are wellcome.
> 

Can we have per-source 'skip.list's ? This has just shown up, since we run 
samba-server-ldap (requires samba-common-ldap), which obsoletes and 
provides samba-server (and vice versa) to allow users to move from one to 
the other. All goes well however, until you get a security update for 
samba, and it installs samba-server over samba-server-ldap and we have 
downtime while I scp samba-server-ldap packages to the server .... and 
add samba-server to the skip.list but now that I have newer ldap-enable 
builds (will be on ftp.samba.org soon), I would have to take samba-server 
out of the skip list again.

I think this would be useful for people using (for example) PLF sources? 
You could put 'mplayer' in /etc/urpmi/skip-cooker.list (for cooker 
source).

Regards,
Buchan

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