Following up on some of these 10 months down the road:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
A set of things I want to work on as Fedora starts into the F11 cycle.
Things followed by question marks are questionable.
Yum:
- keyword metadata searching/tag browsing
In the works - contigent on the metadata being available - eta Fedora13
timeline
- db to store yum-specific info about packages - barring that rpm doesn't
end up letting us do this?
Done - yumdb in current yum versions.
- merge yum-complete-transaction into yum instead of yum-utils.
not done - should it still be?
- Think about different mechanisms for multiple provider handling:
- James' metadata code
- Optional prompting for selecting providers??
Not done - but still worth considering - well - maybe not the prompting.
- downgrade?
done - more or less - filled with potential errors that downgrades always
have but for the simple cases this works.
- repomd.xml signature checking as default
not as default - but in Fedora 12 it is enabled and seems to be working.
- merge yum-security plugin/update_md functions into base?
Do we want to? the update_md functions are in base - just accessing
them is not. updateinfo.xml files are still not terribly common in repos.
- merge in post-transaction-action?
it's in yum-utils - but probably not a good plan to merge it into yum in
general anymore.
- trusted keys per repo?
still not done - ultimately waiting on different code in rpm-python/rpm.
so not terrible results. Some are blocking on other pieces first, of
course.
Where do we go from here:
yum history - a history db of what transactions were run and what the
system looked like before it was run - not really for rollbacks but more
for an audit trail.
multi-file transfer - now that python-urlgrabber is using pycurl it is
probably time to start sorting out how to do multifile transfer at the
same time. It would at least allow us to download a bunch of repodata at
the same time. The interface for the user will be the "interesting" part
here. Still lots of work to go on.
documentation - I think we've added a lot of not-so-well-known features in
the last year or so - it's probably worth talking them up a bit so people
know of new things yum can do, now.
what else?
-sv
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