Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 14:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > neno...@petrie:~$ sudo yum -c ak-bootstrap.conf > > --installroot=/home/nenolod/bootstraptest install centos-release yum > > ak-bootstrap 100% |=| 1.1 kB > > 00:00 > > pr

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
William Pitcock wrote: > neno...@petrie:~$ sudo yum -c ak-bootstrap.conf > --installroot=/home/nenolod/bootstraptest install centos-release yum > ak-bootstrap 100% |=| 1.1 kB > 00:00 > primary.xml.gz 28% |=== | 328 kB > 00:1

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:11 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > I call bollocks here. I am using the version of yum in stable right now > > to yield perfectly working virtual machine filesystems. > > > > How is it "broken" when it is working as expected on production servers?

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
William Pitcock wrote: > I call bollocks here. I am using the version of yum in stable right now > to yield perfectly working virtual machine filesystems. > > How is it "broken" when it is working as expected on production servers? > > William This has been discussed many times, and detailed in

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ William Pitcock (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:49:58 -0500): > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Luk Claes wrote: > > > I'm afraid it's too invasive to be included, though I would propose to > > > upload it to backports.org. > > Then can the current broken version of yum be rem

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 16:25 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: > > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, > >> but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the > >> customers of another web hosting c

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, >> but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the >> customers of another web hosting company (taking all our time doing >> support). Anyway, I could today ta

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, > but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the > customers of another web hosting company (taking all our time doing > support). Anyway, I could today take the time to upload a

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I'm sorry that it took us so much time to make a working yum package, but we were quite overloaded with our work, taking over all the customers of another web hosting company (taking all our time doing support). Anyway, I could today take the time to upload a working version of yum. Here it is

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-16 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Vincent Danjean wrote: >> 3) perhaps, try to push what is available in lenny backport into a >> point-release >>of lenny. This will depends on how many bug fix are present, how intrusive >>the changes are, the release maintainers opinion, ... >> >> For me, 3 is not

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
Vincent Danjean wrote: > 3) perhaps, try to push what is available in lenny backport into a > point-release >of lenny. This will depends on how many bug fix are present, how intrusive >the changes are, the release maintainers opinion, ... > > For me, 3 is not the more important. Work on y

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, I few general remarks about packaging in Debian (I never used yum nor rpm). Thomas Goirand wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: >> Anyway: there won't be new packages introduced into Lenny. [...] > How can I provide a set of patches when the problem is that 2 python > modules are needed? We can't

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:35:20AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. > It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, > python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right > one. python

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Philipp Kern wrote: > I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. It's simply a MISTAKE that has been done by the last maintainer of yum, python-pyme is NOT the correct python package, python-gpgme is the right one. python-pyme is fully in python, while python-gpgme is written in C. Maybe it wo

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:08:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Last before I stop annoying you with this issue: can I add an entry > here, saying that yum shall be fixed? > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases/5.0.1 I'm curious why python-pyme is not sufficient. Anyway: there wo

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: >>> http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates >> My question was more: what's the way to have a package uploaded in pu. >> Should I write in a particular list? This one maybe? > > It's all mentioned on that page. If it's not clear, please tell me what > part so we can update

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Luk Claes wrote: >> Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug >> report. > > Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to > boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being > present. > > I shou

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: > Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug > report. Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being present. I should have add it to the bug report, but

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:08:49 +0100 Luk Claes wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts > > of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. > >

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > I forgot to add... > > The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar > ) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there > are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since > 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
I forgot to add... The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar ) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well. I have contacted the people fro

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum > based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Indeed. > Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum

About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian haven't been active for a long ti