[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zaterdag 25 december 2010 12:02:18 schreef andre999:
> Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > Op zaterdag 25 december 2010 10:18:17 schreef andre999:
> >> Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> >>> Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> >>>> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde<stormi at laposte.net>   
wrote:
> >>>>> I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the
> >>>>> package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that
> >>>>> improving the UI side helpers could be useful.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Regards
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Samuel Verschelde
> >>>> 
> >>>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot;
> >>>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS...
> >>> 
> >>> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if
> >>> you enter at least 2 chars, or something like that.
> >>> 
> >>> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db
> >>> or similar as a list.
> >> 
> >> OK, I did a little search on Ajax, and I think that I understand now.
> >> It seems that you're proposing autocompletion on the text typed in the
> >> field - and only matches will be downloaded.
> >> But if it starts with 2 characters, there could be still 1000's of names
> >> downloaded.
> >> I would suggest that we would need at least 5 characters to restrict the
> >> names downloaded to a reasonable number.
> >> 
> >> Also, there is another factor.  If we are looking for srpm names, but
> >> the user enters binary rpm names, there will not necessarily be a match,
> >> particularly if the srpm results in more than one binary rpm.
> >> So in some cases this will not work.
> >> 
> >> But I have another idea.
> >> Maybe we could have separate (binary) rpm and srpm fields.
> >> There is a button on the page, which will invoke the command to give the
> >> srpms associated with the binary rpms.
> >> Would this be workable ?
> >> Something that would execute
> >> 
> >>    $ rpm -q --qf '{sourcerpm}' {pkg-name}
> >> 
> >> and would automatically enter the result in the srpm field, or at least
> >> display it so it could be typed in.
> >> 
> >> Of course, this would have to be done by the user experiencing the
> >> problems, to ensure having the correct version.
> >> We would also have to deal with the cases where more than one rpm has
> >> the bug.
> >> 
> >> If we can automate this, we can dispense with the potential problems
> >> associated with a list of srpms.  And it would be (at least somewhat)
> >> more efficient both server and client side, as well.
> >> 
> >> Just an idea
> >> 
> >> André
> > 
> > this is no more than sort of TAB completion on the urpmi commands.
> 
> That part I understand.
> Only these values will be downloaded, so some online traffic.
> 
> > averagely 2 characters have ~600 possibilities; meaning that 2 chars give
> > average 25 srpm results. in practice this can be 150 results or something
> 
> Your numbers are right.  Obviously I had one too many zeros.
> 
> > consider also the fact that these are src.rpm , so huge lib**** and the
> > fact that we won't be starting with everything...
> 
> I was thinking of lib*, which is why I said more than 3 characters.
> 
> > imho instead of destroying an idea you don't know much about; why don't i
> > implement it and then you can evaluate if it's bad or not.
> 
> Actually, I was trying brainstorming.  We all know that such ideas don't
> necessarily lead anywhere.
> It is certain that your idea is a lot better than it first appeared.

yeah, sorry, i (and misc) just am trying to suggest an idea that gets broken 
off by people who don't even seem to get it; coupled with less sleep and my 
cranky, i could've worded it better

> However, invoking the rpm command has certain advantages.
> Most importantly, if done on the system of the user finding the bug, it
> reports exactly the correct version of the srpm.
> 
> For example, on my system, if I type in the console exactly :
> 
> rpm -q --qf '%{sourcerpm}' binutils
> 
> _without_ the version, it returns :
> 
> binutils-2.19.51.0.2-1mnb2.src.rpm
> 
> _with_ the version, which is exactly what we want.
> 
> So I have a suggestion.
> With your Ajax skills, I imagine that you would be capable of setting a
> button which automatically invokes that command on a binary rpm field,
> to fill a srpm field ?
> Could you try that as well ?
> If it works, then I think we would have a better solution.

i'm not certain that is required, iirc, the command to find this stuff is out 
there; and the info can be found on mageia-app-db i think.

however, if it isn't a src.rpm but a perfect match for a binary rpm, i guess 
we could return the src.rpm instead.

> I could try it, but my html/javascript skills are quite limited.
> Just a suggestion.
> 
> Regards
> 
> André