On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 15:18 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > - tilde support in version comparison > > No fundamental objections, it'd simplify packaging of pre-release versions > a great deal. The current suggested patch has some issues though, see > http://rpm.org/ticket/56#comment:6 > > I dunno if the compatibility aspect is worth worrying about too much. > There might be a handful of packages using ~ in version/release in > the wild but common it is not, and it probably wouldn't be the end of the > world if those got "broken". Still it needs to be at least considered, > even if the decision is just to ignore.
And we'll need to add support to yum-metadata-parser and createrepo to understand the new type. > > - defining some tag where yum/zypp/smart can store the reason > > why the package was installed (user selected/dragged in via > > dependencies), so that we can implement a "show me all unneeded > > packages" function > > I'm fine with adding such a tag, as long as its defined in a way that it > can be used by all the relevant depsolvers. We seem to have a pretty good > attendance from the depsolver camps this time around... so: > > What such things are the depsolvers currently storing in their own > databases, and in what format? The "reason" tag would seem to me to be an > "enum" type basically (explicit request or dependency), so it'd be an > integer in the header with some predefined RPM_FOO_* constants as its > value? reason from what repo/origin how_installed (meaning what command/program did the work) actually the set of things we might want to set is large. -sv _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint