Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas Meindl
houghi schrieb:
 On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:58:09PM +0200, Thomas Meindl wrote:
   
 Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
 store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able
 to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
 CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
 possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
 anybody give me a hint if it is possible?
 

 This would also be nice not only for updates, but RPM's in general. e.g. I
 can download MPlayer and all that is needed into /usr/src/packages/RPMS/*
 and can use that as a base for other machines (or whatever)
   
Yes, that's exactly my intention. So far I used wget or rsync to keep a
local Yast repository up-to-date, but with this method I also get a lot
of unneeded packages. Therefore smart seems a good way to prevent this -
and can also save me a lot of work and troubles (which is very nice
indeed ;-) ).
I also hope that SUSE implements such a function into the zen-updater
and its front-end. An easy-to-use direct accessible 'use this local
data' dialogue could be a very nice feature.
Btw. many thanks to all for the quick and very helpful replies. I'm
going to use smart - it looks very promising and seems to fit my purpose
very well.
Kind regards,
tOM (who really hates the caps-lock key ;-) )




Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-28 Thread HG

Hi!

On 5/27/06, Pascal Bleser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

(no top-postings please)


Sorry for this. The problem was Gmail mobile, which seems that I'm not
quoting anything while apparently it made me top-post. Sending this
kind of feedback to Google is close to impossible... I'll try.


1) No one is hiding behind Linux is about choices, I wonder what in
Martin's reply makes you feel like we would.


Originally, it was not Martin's reply. But that has come up, even in
this thread.


2) The problems with the YaST2/zypp/ZMD package management in 10.1 is
now very clear to everyone and it's being worked on, actively.


I know that (now). Except, that I'm not at all convinced that the
problems are very clear to _everyone_. It might be known to the
community here, but is it to the normal SUSE user? You gave a good
explanation of the situation, but maybe it's something that should be
at the web-site. (I know, I should write it - but I think it is clear
to everybody that I'm not qualified to write it :-)

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-28 Thread jdd

HG wrote:


2) The problems with the YaST2/zypp/ZMD package management in 10.1 is
now very clear to everyone and it's being worked on, actively.



I know that (now). Except, that I'm not at all convinced that the
problems are very clear to _everyone_.


what is clear is that there is a problem :-)

the problem itself is not so well understood, I guess there 
are several bugs mixed in an obscure manner.


the result is things getting slow.

but the results are improving :-)

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[opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread HG

About this list being about the community... I did not ask help in
regards of the package management (though I need it). I was pointing
out that the OpenSUSE community can not hide behind linux is about
choices mantra. SUSE needs to clear out the package management mess.
And the way to do that is pick one - and make it work - and make that
the default that is in YaST.

HG

On 5/26/06, Martin Schlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

fredag 26 maj 2006 11:28 skrev HG:
 Yes,there are many people that know other mechanisms could be used -
 but many dare not even try. Why? Because nobody knows if it will break
 the distribution or not. (Yes, I'm one of these...) It is totally
 unclear what happens if one uses apt-get to update SUSE. Does the YaST
 package management work correctly after that? Do the security updates
 work anymore?

Unless I'm mistaken Apt is not included on 10.1 - but Smart is - or Yum. You
can use these other rpm-frontends - and it won't cause problems with
yast/zen/rug. Of course if you install unsupported packages with Smart it
will affect security updates - but that's it. Now that the security updates
are fed via a normal repo you can also install the official security updates
with Smart for example.

And please keep in mind this list is for community discussions. Technical
questions about released versions belong on suse-linux-e@suse.com

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread houghi
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:00:17AM -0700, HG wrote:
 About this list being about the community... I did not ask help in
 regards of the package management (though I need it). I was pointing
 out that the OpenSUSE community can not hide behind linux is about
 choices mantra. SUSE needs to clear out the package management mess.
 And the way to do that is pick one - and make it work - and make that
 the default that is in YaST.

1) Please do not toppost
2) People are working on a solution
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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
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HG wrote:
 On 5/26/06, Martin Schlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 fredag 26 maj 2006 11:28 skrev HG:
  Yes,there are many people that know other mechanisms could be used -
  but many dare not even try. Why? Because nobody knows if it will break
  the distribution or not. (Yes, I'm one of these...) It is totally
  unclear what happens if one uses apt-get to update SUSE. Does the YaST
  package management work correctly after that? Do the security updates
  work anymore?

 Unless I'm mistaken Apt is not included on 10.1 - but Smart is - or
 Yum. You can use these other rpm-frontends - and it won't cause
 problems with yast/zen/rug. Of course if you install unsupported
 packages with Smart it will affect security updates - but that's it.
 Now that the security updates are fed via a normal repo you can also
 install the official security updates with Smart for example.
 And please keep in mind this list is for community discussions.
 Technical questions about released versions belong on
 suse-linux-e@suse.com

 About this list being about the community... I did not ask help in
 regards of the package management (though I need it). I was pointing
 out that the OpenSUSE community can not hide behind linux is about
 choices mantra. SUSE needs to clear out the package management mess.
 And the way to do that is pick one - and make it work - and make that
 the default that is in YaST.

(no top-postings please)

Just to make a few things clear:

1) No one is hiding behind Linux is about choices, I wonder what in
Martin's reply makes you feel like we would.

2) The problems with the YaST2/zypp/ZMD package management in 10.1 is
now very clear to everyone and it's being worked on, actively.
Note that we are fully aware of those issues, it's a very uncomfortable
situation to say the least, but we've been able to get a few things
rolling and, as said, it's being tackled by the SUSE team and we,
community, help as much as we can with testing, filing bug reports,
giving feedback, etc...
Hopefully it will be solved soon, but it will take some development work.

3) Until the major issues are solved, there are a few alternatives to
YaST2/zypp/ZMD you can use on SUSE Linux 10.1 (and older versions).
If you want something that works well, now, use those.
Martin gave a few of the options.
Let me summarize again (and note that all of those are included with SL
10.1, either on the media or on the FTP tree):

- - yum: I wouldn't recommend using yum, it's not the most stable and
(dare I say) apt package manager at the moment (I really wonder how the
Fedora users can live with it)

- - apt-rpm: while some people report bad experiences with it (corrupt RPM
database), I personally never had issues with it (but I've been using
smart since some time now) and it seems that it's being actively
maintained and developed again, and even supports RPM-MD (yum)
repositories in its latest versions (though that's not the one shipped
on the 10.1 FTP tree)

- - y2pmsh: that tool is developed by the SUSE team and has been shipped
with SUSE Linux since 9.1: it's a CLI/shell front-end to the YaST2
Package Management engine. The interesting thing here, is that it has
not been ported to zypp/ZMD, which means that it is still using the
old YaST2 package management engine, and it works well.

- - smart: last but not least, what seems to be the current rising star
of package management. It's a 99% Python application (99% because it
depends on rpm-python) that has a CLI, shell and GUI frontend (similar
to aptitude) that most certainly has the best resolver engine and is
particularly smart (eh) at solving upgrades, dependencies, downgrades,
etc...
Personally, I would recommend smart, as it is being used by a lot of
SUSE users now, who are very happy with it.
For more information about smart:
http://smartpm.org/
http://spinink.net/2006/05/20/installing-smart-package-manager/
And you might consider using my smart RPMs that come preinstalled with
all the channels and mirrors you'd need:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=System/smart/

So, to summarize, I'd say go with smart or y2pmsh (though I personally
have nothing against apt-rpm - Richard is a big fan of it, maybe you'd
like to make a case for it ;)).

Now, all of those are actually package management frontends, because
they all rely on rpm or librpm to do the real low-level work, none of
them is bypassing it. That means you can use any of them or even mix
them (install something with y2pmsh, then upgrade it with smart, etc...).

All of that being said, the community and the SUSE team is not hiding
behind those alternatives.
The problems with YaST2/zypp/ZMD in 10.1 have been identified, been made
clear to everyone and we're working on it.

Of course, SUSE Linux must have a default package manager (YaST2) that
works flawlessly.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Druid

3) Until the major issues are solved, there are a few alternatives to
YaST2/zypp/ZMD you can use on SUSE Linux 10.1 (and older versions).
If you want something that works well, now, use those.
Martin gave a few of the options.
Let me summarize again (and note that all of those are included with SL
10.1, either on the media or on the FTP tree):

Its more or less sumarized here

http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Management


Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
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Thomas Meindl wrote:
 Druid schrieb:
...
 Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
 store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able
 to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
 CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
 possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
 anybody give me a hint if it is possible?

smart config set remove-packages=False

or

smart -oremove-packages=False install ...

See http://labix.org/smart/config-options

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Bos
Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 17:37, schreef Pascal Bleser:
 apt-rpm - Richard is a big fan of it, maybe you'd
 like to make a case for it ;)).

:)

Pascal, what do you mean with you'd like to make a case for it?
What case?  Do you refer to me or to the some of the previous posters?


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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Bos
Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 18:58, schreef Thomas Meindl:
 Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
 store the downloaded packages locally?

apt can do this ;)

E.g. you build your own package that is of course stored locally.  Install the 
package with 'apt install rpm name'.  Apt will install the app and when it 
requires other pkgs they'll be retrieved from the repository.

Another nice is to install based on file name, like:
apt install /usr/bin/smart 

apt will investigate which package provides  /usr/bin/smart  and will install 
that one :0

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread houghi
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:58:09PM +0200, Thomas Meindl wrote:
 Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
 store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able
 to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
 CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
 possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
 anybody give me a hint if it is possible?

This would also be nice not only for updates, but RPM's in general. e.g. I
can download MPlayer and all that is needed into /usr/src/packages/RPMS/*
and can use that as a base for other machines (or whatever)
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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread houghi
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 07:05:05PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
 Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 17:37, schreef Pascal Bleser:
  apt-rpm - Richard is a big fan of it, maybe you'd
  like to make a case for it ;)).
 
 :)
 
 Pascal, what do you mean with you'd like to make a case for it?
 What case?  Do you refer to me or to the some of the previous posters?

Naturaly he was talking to/about you. Who else would make a case for apt
Ducks. ;-)
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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread jdd

Thomas Meindl wrote:


Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able
to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
anybody give me a hint if it is possible?
Kind regards


use wget instead :-)
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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Pascal Bleser
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Pascal Bleser wrote:
 Thomas Meindl wrote:
 Druid schrieb:
 ...
 Maybe I missed a point till now, but can any of these package managers
 store the downloaded packages locally? E.g. Yast Online Update was able
 to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
 CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
 possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
 anybody give me a hint if it is possible?
 
 smart config set remove-packages=False
 
 or
 
 smart -oremove-packages=False install ...

Sorry, it's

smart -o remove-packages=false install/upgrade ...

See the FAQ:
http://labix.org/smart/faq#head-a58d1f3021d9c21845a7b23b4b5e6a514060f64d

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Bos
Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 19:07, schreef houghi:
 E.g. Yast Online Update was able

  to do this till SUSE 10.0 and it was easy to create a personalized patch
  CD. It would save bandwidth an time (and lots of my nerves) if it was
  possible to store the packages and repository data on my HD.  Can
  anybody give me a hint if it is possible?

 This would also be nice not only for updates, but RPM's in general. e.g. I
 can download MPlayer and all that is needed into /usr/src/packages/RPMS/*
 and can use that as a base for other machines (or whatever)

I guess all pkg mgr will store their downloaded rpms.  APT does this 
in /var/cache/apt/archives, yast and samrt will do this somewhere else.  
Those archives can be used for other machines as well.  In my 
case  /var/cache/apt/archives is nfs mounted to different machines and as 
such the cache is shared among different machine automatically.  It would be 
nice if all pkg managers would use the same cache.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Richard Bos
Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 19:10, schreef houghi:
 Naturaly he was talking to/about you. Who else would make a case for apt

What case?  People that know apt use it happily.  People that don't know apt 
are advised by suse (and it's community) to use smart for the moment.  When 
zypp/rug or working normally people will use that.  That's fine with me (case 
closed).  I think that apt should just be part of the suse distribution, like 
it is in 10.1 (not on CD, but on the ftp server).  This is the best case. 
Case closed ;)

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Carl Hartung
On Saturday 27 May 2006 13:25, Richard Bos wrote:
 What case?  People that know apt use it happily.  People that don't know
 apt are advised by suse (and it's community) to use smart for the moment. 
 When zypp/rug or working normally people will use that.  That's fine with
 me (case closed).  I think that apt should just be part of the suse
 distribution, like it is in 10.1 (not on CD, but on the ftp server).  This
 is the best case. Case closed ;)

FWIW, it was apt-get that allowed me to quickly and painlessly install the 
twelve dependencies needed by the beta updating system packages. ;-)

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Saturday 27 May 2006 18:25, Richard Bos wrote:
 Op zaterdag 27 mei 2006 19:10, schreef houghi:
  Naturaly he was talking to/about you. Who else would make a case for apt

 What case?  People that know apt use it happily.  People that don't know
 apt are advised by suse (and it's community) to use smart for the moment. 
 When zypp/rug or working normally people will use that.  That's fine with
 me (case closed).  I think that apt should just be part of the suse
 distribution, like it is in 10.1 (not on CD, but on the ftp server).  This
 is the best case. Case closed ;)

I'm not convinced that that's just the case. I'd quite happily say that I'm a 
pretty experienced APT user, but these days I only use smart; there's more to 
the smart/apt distinction. Some have already raised the quick pros/cons of 
the different package management systems, but perhaps a few more words could 
be said. 

Apt on suse is not nearly as pacey as it is on debian/ubuntu. I have no idea 
as to the root of the actual problem of this issue -- whether it's extra 
configurations that optimise perfomance on debian/ubuntu, or an issue with 
apt-rpm itself -- but it's certainly an issue, and it is kind of obvious. 
Needless to say, this issue does not bother me at all, and certainly wouldn't 
stop me using it on suse.

Apt is not BiArch, and it's for this particular reason that Shuttleworth has 
mentioned its possible inclusion in Ubuntu 6.10 (as it's set to be). This is 
definitely an issue for me, an AMD64 user, on SUSE.

Smart has a lot more nice things that apt simply lacks. It can use Yast 
repositories, it can use Yum repositories, and very nicely for me -- it can 
make multiple connections at once and can appropriately handle 
mirror-sources/repositories. This is something that Apt can't really do. This 
is hugely useful as download speeds are dramatically increased. Though, I 
also like smart's --shell interface. 

Don't get me wrong, APT has a few advantages too, I've used apt quite a bit 
and have come to know and got too used to its strengths. For me the only 
thing I really miss now though is build-dep, which is incredibly useful for 
those who venture into compiling. Smart has nothing like this, and really I 
doubt there are current plans to introduce this.

As to using APT on suse, I see people every other day saying don't use apt, 
it'll muck up your system. I used it quite a bit, and I only ever recall 
having to do rpm --rebuilddb once while using apt, and to be frank I'm not 
convinced that apt was to blame for the error. So I'm not really put off 
using it. 

I think smart can still improve (and indeed it looks incredibly promising), 
and apt isn't a bad tool at all -- I could still use it all the time if I 
*had* to, but as SUSE is now, I'd really rather use smart and recommend 
others to, too.

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[opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-27 Thread HG

1) Houghi, I do not top post if I can help it - I'm answering this
with mobile gmail, which down not give me any choice ... it seems that
I'm not quoting anything, but if everything is quoted, I can not help
it - I'm sorry for that!
2) Glad to hear (and I suspected so... still I think my point was valid)

HG

On 5/27/06, houghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 08:00:17AM -0700, HG wrote:
 About this list being about the community... I did not ask help in
 regards of the package management (though I need it). I was pointing
 out that the OpenSUSE community can not hide behind linux is about
 choices mantra. SUSE needs to clear out the package management mess.
 And the way to do that is pick one - and make it work - and make that
 the default that is in YaST.

1) Please do not toppost
2) People are working on a solution
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[opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-26 Thread HG

The defence is that linux is about choices. And yes, it is. But
those that are creating a distribution, have to make the choices. They
choose some mechanism for the distribution - and about 99% of users
use that!

Yes,there are many people that know other mechanisms could be used -
but many dare not even try. Why? Because nobody knows if it will break
the distribution or not. (Yes, I'm one of these...) It is totally
unclear what happens if one uses apt-get to update SUSE. Does the YaST
package management work correctly after that? Do the security updates
work anymore?

We have use SUSE Linux at work. After reading about the package
management problems of 10.1, we desided not to upgrade to 10.1.
Somebody wrote that the good releases were 9.1, 9.3 and 10.1 - I'd say
they are 9.1, 9.3 and 10.0.

HG

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Hi,

On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 07:05:33, Kyek, Andreas, VF-DE wrote:

 I'm a bit confused about the packagemanagement in 10.1.

 AFAIK there is yast, smart and apt. smart shall be the
 successor of apt, which will (AFAIK) be supported last
 time with 10.1

and yum and y2pmsh and rug/zmd...

 What about smart? Is smart the upcoming tool in 10.x or
 is it yast (with this migrated software for software
 management where I read something somewhere about?)

There is no upcomming tool. Linux is about choice. Preconfigured
Packagemanager will always be YaST/libzypp.

 Can someone clarify that or tell me a link, where I can
 read something about that?

I started http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Management

maybe you can help and expand it with examples for apt4rpm?

Henne

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-26 Thread Martin Schlander
fredag 26 maj 2006 11:28 skrev HG:
 Yes,there are many people that know other mechanisms could be used -
 but many dare not even try. Why? Because nobody knows if it will break
 the distribution or not. (Yes, I'm one of these...) It is totally
 unclear what happens if one uses apt-get to update SUSE. Does the YaST
 package management work correctly after that? Do the security updates
 work anymore?

Unless I'm mistaken Apt is not included on 10.1 - but Smart is - or Yum. You 
can use these other rpm-frontends - and it won't cause problems with 
yast/zen/rug. Of course if you install unsupported packages with Smart it 
will affect security updates - but that's it. Now that the security updates 
are fed via a normal repo you can also install the official security updates 
with Smart for example.

And please keep in mind this list is for community discussions. Technical 
questions about released versions belong on suse-linux-e@suse.com

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Re: [opensuse] Re: packagemanagement in 10.1

2006-05-26 Thread Richard Bos
Op vrijdag 26 mei 2006 19:44, schreef Martin Schlander:
 Unless I'm mistaken Apt is not included on 10.1 - but Smart is - or Yum.

Apt is part of the 10.1  It does not come on the CD's but it is downloadable 
from the servers (it's part of the suse part that is only available via ftp).

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