[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist

Fri Oct 14 21:24:55 CEST 2011

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
+