[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist

[Donald Stewart]

On 14 October 2011 11:36, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 20:33:29, Per Øyvind Karlsen a écrit :
>> 2011/10/14 Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net>:
>> > Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 19:30:01, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
>> >> Le vendredi 14 octobre 2011 16:19:18, Per Øyvind Karlsen a écrit :
>> >> > I've started to ramble on some of the features, issues, ideas etc. to
>> >> > work on and consider
>> >> > for our (Mandriva Linux) next development cycle, and in the interest
>> >> > of sharing work and
>> >> > coordinating efforts with others, while inviting others to contribute:
>> >> > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/RPM/TODO
>> >> >
>> >> > While it's certainly written from a vendor POV (and also rather crude
>> >> > for the moment), I'm cross-posting
>> >> > this one as it's of potential interest to others as well and the idea
>> >> > is for things to be as generic as
>> >> > possible anyhows.. :)
>> >> >
>> >> > So I invite others with the interest to contribute to the discussion
>> >> > on the list and wiki, proposing
>> >> > ideas, gather a list of issues that needs to be addressed, and do some
>> >> > general brainstorming
>> >> > and uhm.. "stuff". ;)
>> >>
>> >> I don't know RPM internals well, the only thing that comes to my mind is
>> >> improved packagekit support for Mandriva / Mageia.
>>
>> Don't necessarily need to know RPM internals for proposing features,
>> or issues you'd
>> like to see be solved. :)
>>
>> > Maybe also the package management related items in the Mageia 2 specs can
>> > be of interest:
>> > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso2:technical_specification#package_m
>> > anagement_infrastructure
>>
>> Ah, yes, most certainly. :)
>>
>> I can leave some comments on your wiki, while adding what I personally
>> find useful and interesting to my
>> wiki page where I'll keep track of it's current progress (at my end at
>> least;).
>
> Please note that this wiki page is readonly (don't trust the wiki if it lets
> you edit it). The place for discussion is bugzilla (each item should have an
> entry in bugzilla, even if it's not the case currently).
>
> Best regards
>
> Samuel
>

Improving packagekit would be great, not having a qt based package
manager is annoying.

The only other thing that I would like to see, although i think it is
more or a urpm issue than rpm is adding parallel downloads, so that
when packages are being installed, it keeps on downloading the next
set to be installed.

Schultz