Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, James Antill wrote: > While it's not a bad idea in theory, the problem is the packages aren't > built to use that in practise ... so you have problems like: > > java-1.5.0-gcj-devel provides java-devel = 1.5.0 > > java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel provides java-devel = 1:1.6.0 >

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > The other nagging thing I have on my "list" is that Provides versioning > > should trump shortest name when deciding best packages for a dep. For > > example if foob provides bar = 1.0 and foo

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread James Antill
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > The other nagging thing I have on my "list" is that Provides versioning > should > trump shortest name when deciding best packages for a dep. For example if > foob provides bar = 1.0 and foobar provides bar = 2.0 and something asks for >

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > I don't really have much of a list to speak of, but one item that'll probably > be there is "make yum faster", almost no matter how fast it already is ;). > It's always an enlightening experience and a reminder for this to use apt-get >

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, James Antill wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:28 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > I am posting some of the things on my todo list to see if anyone feels > > > > like picking up some of them. > > Here is my list, ... I don't really have much of a list t

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:53 PM, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 18:40 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > > > > These are more or less just dumps of my gnote todolists + some > > paper > > notes. If anyone is interested in working on any of them, > > patches

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 18:40 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > > These are more or less just dumps of my gnote todolists + some > paper > notes. If anyone is interested in working on any of them, > patches are > welcome, of course and if you ha

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:35 PM, James Antill wrote: > > • "cyum" C API to yum ... this is pain, there are also a few features > that aren't much extra on top of the initial pain so it's a bit more > than that. I don't expect anyone else to be insane enough to do this, > and I haven't lost it enoug

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Lauridsen
> > > > These are more or less just dumps of my gnote todolists + some paper > notes. If anyone is interested in working on any of them, patches are > welcome, of course and if you have questions about how to do them, ask > here or come by #yum on freenode. > > -sv > > > Maybe making a wiki page, w

Re: [Yum-devel] random todos

2010-06-01 Thread James Antill
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:28 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > Hey Folks, > I am posting some of the things on my todo list to see if anyone feels > like picking up some of them. Here is my list, it's somewhat more tentative (some stuff might easily be dropped/rejected ... but that's me :). I may also h

[Yum-devel] random todos

2010-05-28 Thread seth vidal
Hey Folks, I am posting some of the things on my todo list to see if anyone feels like picking up some of them. yum: • whiteout/blacklists from comps needs to be handled in comps.py for dumping them back out. • multiple-item-grab in one command - from urlgrabber using curl • make groupinstalls ad