Hi Sami, Thx for mentioning this item. Some of the work you are doing fits into the improvement around shared installs. DJ will be spearheading this work and should be sending a note later this week aiming at gathering the concrete requirements and then splitting up the work so everybody can contribute :)
PaScaL On 2011-09-19, at 10:30 AM, sami wagiaalla wrote: > >> [...] if you want to add items you are willing to work on contact us here >> too. >> > > Hi Pascal, > > I have two items: > > First, I think that what would make rpm work well with the director is to > have the director install units without moving the artifacts. > > I.e. the rpm would put the artifacts in features/ and plugins/ and then tell > the p2director to install and it would only update the metadata files. Right > now that does not work because the director will not accept this ugly set up > as a repository :). I also suspect that it would touch the files placed by > rpm in features/ and plugins/ but I am just guessing here. > > Now the reconciler does exactly that :) without the requirement of specifying > the IUs. I am half way through experimenting with the Fedora rpms to get them > to use the reconciler as described, and I think it will work perfectly. The > only caveat is that I had to backup the metadata files run the reconciler, > check its return value and restore the files if there was a failure. This > brings me to the second Item: it would be nice if the reconciler had a > dry-run mode. > > I don't know if we will be able to work on these items but I thought I would > throw them into the mix :) > > Cheers, > Sami _______________________________________________ p2-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/p2-dev
