Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (116 mails)

[Martin Vidner <mvidner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:33:58AM +0200, Jan Kupec wrote:
> Yesterday we (Prague YaST team) had a discussion about how to proceed
> with adaptation of YaST to the new repository management API of libzypp.
> 
> First thing to note, the API has yet to mature in the upcoming days, as
> we test it with zypper and still modify it as needed. _After_ the API is
> declared done, we propose to proceed as follows:
> 
> 1.  document transition from old API to the new one (a method to method,
>     code to code map) and post to yast-devel.

Here is a start: http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Refactoring/Porting

> 2.  drop the old source management code from libzypp trunk

I will now start porting yast2-pkg-bindings and update the abova
page with my experience so that the UI libraries can follow.

> 3.  submit libzypp trunk package to BETA (all dependent packages will
>     then fail building and maintainers will get the notice).
> 
> 4.  maintainers of the dependencies adapt their code
> 
> 5.  after tuning, submit all the stuff to STABLE (in time for the last
>     Aplha release)
> 
> 
> If you are a maintainer of a package affected by the changes in libzypp,
> please provide feedback on the new API as you start looking at it
> (probably after publishing the transition document).

My impression is that zypp did a cleanup of the overbloated
Source_Ref+SourceManager by throwing a lot of things away. If
pkg-bindings need some of it revived, I will take care to add it in
a more structured way.
-- 
Martin Vidner, YaST developer
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner

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