[Mageia-discuss] Mandriva is switching to rpm5, and other news

Fri Dec 3 10:21:38 CET 2010

Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>
+> Op donderdag 02 december 2010 23:09:14 schreef Morgan Leijström:
+>> ADDING to what i just wrote:
+>>> A week or so old news but I saw it now...
+>>>
+>>> <http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_specs_proposal#Swith_to_rpm5>
+>>> <http://ostatic.com/blog/whats-coming-in-mandriva-2011>
+>>> <http://proyvind.net/wordpress/?p=71>
+>>>
+>>> Citing proyvind from last link:
+>>> "...I think we will end up being able to be the awesome alternative in
+>>> the forked world, hoping for interest of other distros, actively
+>>> inviting their participation and offering to help merge,..."
+>>
+>> - i forgot to paste the best part:
+>>
+>> "I’m curious about what stance Mageia will take on this though, I’m
+>> certainly hoping they will adopt our work and allow for us to help them
+>> and contribute back and forth, if not I fear they’ll miss out on several
+>> changes in just perl-URPM done recently during rpm5 rewrite, and even more
+>> so those planned when rpm5 upgrade situtation settles.."
+>>
+>>> There are also other goodies in the middle link i hope we can coopreate
+>>> with them on.
+>
+> well, i'm not adverse to cooperation, but RPM5 is in my opinion FAR too
+> unstable to be used for use on our first release.
+>
+> I would say, let mandriva find the bugs first and let it give rpm5 a testrun
+> with their users; by the time we hit our second release, we will have a for
+> sure stable version of it.
+>
+I've been following RPM5 (and the associated urpm4) on cooker for a 
+while now ...
+All 3 stories come from the person integrating rpm5 into Mandriva - he 
+was recently hired to do just that, with full support of management.
+To me it looks like rpm5 itself won't be the big problem - rather 
+changing the urpmi tools and adapting the build system to work with it.
+Not sure which way Mageia should go at first, but the newer versions of 
+their tools will be based on rpm5.
+It was interesting how cooker wasn't warned of the changes - suddenly 
+many developers were left unable to do any anything, until Per fixed the 
+bugs he created.  And then they learned about the planned switch.
+A perfect example of how NOT to do things :)
+
+It is good that Per is open to cooperation - his experiences will be a 
+big asset when we do follow suit - which I expect we will, sooner or later.
+Maarten, have you taken a close look at it ?
+