openSUSE Software Management January 2010

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[softwaremgmt] Autoenable-feature for services
by J. Daniel Schmidt 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, I'd like to discuss a new feature for (NU) Services. A service can contain multiple repos and they may change over time. All these changes are automatically apllied to the system during a refresh of the service. But one thing is missing IMHO. All new repos always remain disabled and have to be enabled manually. In the registration process we therefore enable each repo one by one. The server has no way to tell the client what repos should be enabled in his opinion. And the client has no possibility to change the policy to always enable repos in services. I'd recommend to add a new property to the repo definition in the repoindex.xml: enable="1". Repos tagged like this should be enabled (of course only in the opinion of the server). When a service gets added on a client the service should get a new parameter: autoenable=<value> in its service file (zypper needs to support it). The value might be one of: all = automatically enable all repos that the server has remote = automatically enable all repos that are tagged with enable="1" none = no automatic enabling - default (if missing), to be backward compatible By this, the authority still remains on the client. The client can decide what policy he wants to use. And the change of the policy is per service, so changing the policy for one service does not change for all services. This would be a nice feature for services as you could add one service that you trust (maybe you administer it yourself) and then forget about it, as the repos will always adapt automatically. I had short conversations with Duncan MacVicar and Marcus Meissner about this topic today but now want to open it for a discussion. What do you think? Are there better ways to do this? Are there side-effects or security issues? Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn(a)suse.de> SUSE Linux Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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[softwaremgmt] JFYI: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.8.0 released!
by Klaus Kaempf 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

JFYI ----- Forwarded message from Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> ----- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:20:47 +0200 (EET) From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> To: rpm-announce(a)lists.rpm.org, rpm-maint(a)lists.rpm.org Cc: lwn(a)lwn.net Subject: [Rpm-maint] RPM 4.8.0 released! We're pleased to announce the availability of RPM release 4.8.0. Download instructions and more detailed information are available from: http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.8.0 Here's the executive summary of user-visible changes since RPM 4.7.x: General bugfixes and enhancements: * Fix ftp/http proxy options (RhBug:529214) (regression originating from 4.6.0) * Fix remote package retrieval in rpm2cpio (RhBug:523260) * Fix --tid and --querybynumber query selectors (regression originating from 4.6.0) * Fix extranuous dependency type characters in --filerequires/provides output * Fix package relocatability checking (broken since forever) * Fix --excludepath (RhBug:409637) * Fix verification result depending on verbosity level (RhBug:510213) * Fix filename starting with '-' treated as stdin * Fix --nodirtokens yet again (RhBug:546663) * Query error code fixes (SuseBug:527191) * Report multiple scriptlet dependency bits in deptype format extension * Permit user specified query formats to behave differently on rpm's verbosity level * Dependency information queries now return the dependency type too in verbose mode * New tag extensions: o DBINSTANCE (record number of installed packages) o HEADERCOLOR (multilib "color" of header) o EVR, NVR, NEVR, NEVRA, NVRA (convenience formatting of name, epoch, version, release and arch tags) o EPOCHNUM (epoch of header, returns 0 for no epoch) o VERBOSE (is rpm in verbose mode or not) * New format extensions: o :fstate (human readable file state information) o :vflags (human readable file verifyflags information) * Major speed improvement in file list queries (eg -qal) * Major speed improvements in installation dependency calculations * Error out early when trying to install to readonly filesystem (ticket #99, RhBug:464750) * Disk space problems are only reported for affected packages (RhBug:517418) * Skip %posttrans scriptlets of failed transaction elements * Package erasures are now ordered too (ticket #48) * Improved ordering of packages with dependency loops - loopy sets are now guaranteed to be installed together (ticket #51) * Install ordering now differentiates between "colored" dependencies, giving better order with multilib package sets * Handle Requires(pre,preun) ordering correctly on erasure * %_netsharedpath is evaluated for erasures too (RhBug:494640) * Validate rpmlib() dependencies on src.rpm install (RhBug:490613) * Various minor corner-case memory leaks fixed * Several documentation fixes (ticket #72, #63) * Several translation updates (Spanish, Portugese Brasilian, Polish, German, Japanese, French, Serbian) Package building: * Automatic extraction of OCaml dependencies * Automatic extraction of mime-handler provides from .desktop files * Automatic extraction of font provides * OSGi dependency generator fixes (ticket #101) * Extra options can be now specified and passed to dependency extractor scripts * %files now accepts multiple filelists through -f (ticket #70, RhBug:475359) * Use 444 permissions for all .debug files (RhBug:522194) * Handle .desktop files with spaces in filename (RhBug:520920) * Fix duplicate dependency checking on build (RhBug:490378) * Various commonly used Python macros added (ticket #83) * Support for multiple major python versions in brp-python-bytecompile * Packages can now have a separate bug reporting url by setting BugUrl in spec or through %_bugurl in macro configuration (RhBug:512774) * Fix %sources and %patches containing the same items multiple times (ticket #82) * Add default %clean section unless overridden in spec (ticket #81) * %patch macro supports new -d option (ticket #69) * New %make_install macro which does the right thing wrt modern autotools (ie "make install DESTDIR=...") * Unset CDPATH (and DISPLAY) environment variables on build-scripts * Always run build-scripts in C-locale * Don't set --target in %configure (RhBug:458648) * Fix segfault on %include of empty file * Add XZ and LZMA recompress support to brp-compress (ticket #84) * Correctly inherit default %attr(-,-,-) from %defattr (RhBug:515685) * Support DWARF-3 in debugedit (RhBug:505774) * Much stricter set of allowed characters in various tags like Name, Version etc (ticket #59, RhBug:493157) * PreReq and BuildPreReq are now officially deprecated, with warnings at build-time * PreReq is mapped to Requires(pre,preun) at build-time * Permit %ghost to be used on non-existent files (RhBug:495040) * Configurable changelog trimming in rpm files (ticket #47) * Error out on unsupported payload compressor (RhBug:495429) * Correctly handle "./" in file paths (RhBug:491388) * Various tweaks to the internal file classifier (RhBug:491349) * Handle XZ in %uncompress macro * New built-in %getconfdir macro for getting rpm configuration "home directory" * Support for signing with the ancient PGP has been removed * Backwards compatibility macros %{PACKAGE_VERSION} and %{PACKAGE_RELEASE} are no longer supported in spec. Use %{version} and %{release} instead. Changes since rpm-4.8.0-beta1: - Avoid noise from python bytecompile on non-python packages (RhBug:539635) - Avoid exposing libmagic dependency in public headers - Several refcount-error caused memory leaks in python bindings fixed - Move python transaction element refcounting back to C-level - Permit unexpanded macros in spec tags again (RhBug:547997) - Remove the internal-only disk-space related functions from public API - Hardwire lead major version to 3 (RhBug:546663) On behalf of the rpm-team, - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint(a)lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint ----- End forwarded message ----- --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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