On Thursday 23 August 2012 14:31:03 Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
Continuing from http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-softwaremgmt/2012-08/msg00000.html
At http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-11/msg01549.html Duncan said ZYpp should be made lock-free for some operations. How is the work going? There is a list of operations?
As I'm today back from vacation, I'll start to work on this. Target for this is openSUSE Factory. I hope everything except for actual package installation can be done without a hard lock. But it will be quite some work as zypp was not designed that way. Furthermore zypper, pk and yast are not prepared for handling any changes behind their backs. This should also lead to a new API for launching the system and maintaining the repositories, esp. refreshing and syncing them to the pool. The more workflow is provided by zypp the easier it should be to handle concurrency.
And then I guess nobody is working in the packagekit backend, true?
Well, Duncan led me to git@github.com:openSUSE/PackageKit.git and I applied a few fixes there. But frankly it's not obvious to me who's actually maintaining this code, and where. I'm currently thinking about starting to implement a new backend to develop and test the new locks and repo handling. Just to be sure it will fit PK and zyppers needs.
About that, I would just like to know: - Given that http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Libzypp_API is a bit outdated. What's the best reference for libzypp API?
http://doc.opensuse.org/projects/libzypp/HEAD/
- What happened with the "next-gen API" (http://lists.opensuse.org/zypp-devel/2011-08/msg00018.html and http://lists.opensuse.org/zypp-devel/2012-01/msg00014.html)? https://github.com/openSUSE/zpm looks dead.
Maybe the repo handling will be the first step into this direction. -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development, ma@suse.de GF:Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer, HRB16746(AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: zypp-devel+owner@opensuse.org