On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Daniel Kreuter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/03/2010 10:21 AM, andre999 wrote: >> >> Maarten Vanraes a écrit : >>> >>> Op donderdag 02 december 2010 23:09:14 schreef Morgan Leijström: >>>> >>>> ADDING to what i just wrote: >>>>> >>>>> A week or so old news but I saw it now... >>>>> >>>>> <http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_specs_proposal#Swith_to_rpm5> >>>>> <http://ostatic.com/blog/whats-coming-in-mandriva-2011> >>>>> <http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=71> >>>>> >>>>> Citing proyvind from last link: >>>>> "...I think we will end up being able to be the awesome alternative in >>>>> the forked world, hoping for interest of other distros, actively >>>>> inviting their participation and offering to help merge,..." >>>> >>>> - i forgot to paste the best part: >>>> >>>> "I’m curious about what stance Mageia will take on this though, I’m >>>> certainly hoping they will adopt our work and allow for us to help them >>>> and contribute back and forth, if not I fear they’ll miss out on several >>>> changes in just perl-URPM done recently during rpm5 rewrite, and even >>>> more >>>> so those planned when rpm5 upgrade situtation settles.." >>>> >>>>> There are also other goodies in the middle link i hope we can coopreate >>>>> with them on. >>> >>> well, i'm not adverse to cooperation, but RPM5 is in my opinion FAR too >>> unstable to be used for use on our first release. >>> >>> I would say, let mandriva find the bugs first and let it give rpm5 a >>> testrun >>> with their users; by the time we hit our second release, we will have a >>> for >>> sure stable version of it. >>> >> I've been following RPM5 (and the associated urpm4) on cooker for a while >> now ... >> All 3 stories come from the person integrating rpm5 into Mandriva - he was >> recently hired to do just that, with full support of management. >> To me it looks like rpm5 itself won't be the big problem - rather changing >> the urpmi tools and adapting the build system to work with it. >> Not sure which way Mageia should go at first, but the newer versions of >> their tools will be based on rpm5. >> It was interesting how cooker wasn't warned of the changes - suddenly many >> developers were left unable to do any anything, until Per fixed the bugs he >> created. And then they learned about the planned switch. >> A perfect example of how NOT to do things :) >> >> It is good that Per is open to cooperation - his experiences will be a big >> asset when we do follow suit - which I expect we will, sooner or later. >> Maarten, have you taken a close look at it ? > > At the start we should use RPM4 because it is proven to be stable. > > Let's wait until RPM5 will be stable in Mandriva and after that we can move > to RPM5 >
I do agree and Mageia has already a release roadmap to follow and I believe there`s no time left for a rpm5 turn. -- Leandro Dorileo
