Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Cristian Rodriguez <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> We're replacing our package manager resolver library with a new version
> called "libzypp".  This integration is more complex than estimated and
> therefore we decided:
> 
> * to have beta4 available a day later than planned
> 
> * to have an additional beta5 next week
> 
> * the package manager in beta4 will only have reduced functionality
> 
> We're still working on the integration of "libzypp" into our tree and
> hope to have both update and new installation working.
> 
> Together with libzypp, we get the zmd daemon, the rug command line
> interface, the zen-updater, zen-remover, zen-installer packages.  They
> all handle YUM sources and additionally Zenworks servers as
> installation sources.
> 
> 
> Note that I'm not sure whether YaST sources will still be supported -
> or only YUM sources.  I'll try to figure this out now.
> 
> IMPORTANT: The current factory tree contains the first of these
> changes and I advise to not update the yast components from it!
> 
> Andreas

Andreas:

Where I can found information about this tools?
and the **technical** reasons,advantages..and  why this stuff was changed ?