Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Management Design and Experience

Am Dienstag, 30. Mai 2006 10:50 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> writes:
> >> One question we have is how the new tools rug, zen-updater and zmd
> >> compare to what we had before with YaST Online Update and
> >> suseWatcher. We are interested in every feedback ranging from
> >> architecture, design or used standards and their enhancements.
> >
> > It should be possible to disable and remove the whole ZMD stuff
> > and still be able to work from commandline.
> >
> > For this is missing:
> >
> > - commandline installation source management (installation_sources
> > equiv.) - commandline package installation (basically the yast -i pkg
> > thing) - commandline online update (online_update equiv.)
>
> I think the question here is even greater: Do we really need a daemon?
>
> Pros:
> + daemon helps with remote management
> + is fast (not the case with zmd if zmd is sleeping)
>
> Cons:
> + needs resources running (zmd needs less resources if it's sleeping)
>
> What else?
Pros: 
+ allows autoupdate with user notification (also possible but more clumsy with 
cron jobs)

Greetings, Stephan