On Tue, Sep 02, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
D??a Friday 22 August 2008 18:04:11 Christian Morales Vega ste nap?al: [...]
In my opinion: - '1' isn't a big problem, can wait. - '3' (and perhaps '2') NEEDS a fix for 11.0. Isn't just an improvement, it's a bug. Right now the updater applet is totally unusable. I can ignore "zypper lu" and just use "zypper up", but with the applet I can't ignore the problem... "zypper lu" is the only option available. - '4' should be fixed for 11.0 before 11.1 is released.
I'm worried about '2' and '3' since bug #402770 was closed with WONTFIX (and '1' is also similar).
Not sure if we are able to address the issues, as they might be very deep in the stack and might result in unpredicable results.
They are quite deep in the stack. The basic problem is that zypper, yast-ui and yast-pkgbindings use three quite different ways to select packages. While zypper delegates as much as possible to the solver, yast-pkgbindings tried to do as much as possible on their own. And the yast-ui is somewhere in the middle. It's an unlucky situation that we have a powerfull solver, but some parts still drive it through an oldstyle interface. We already started to migrate the old code, to move decisions out of the applications and into libzypp and finaly into the satsolver. For 11.1 yast-pkgbindings are changed to use the libzypp Selectable interface, the same one the yast-ui uses. It's still not perfect, but the code is now located inside libzypp and so we have just one location to improve. And we just moved the 'distribution upgrade' from libzypp into the satsolver. Whith this 'zyppper dup' on 11.1 will respect all active solver policies, and not just some of them (as in 4). The required changes are quite radical so I don't know whether we will port this back to 11.0. But the issues are IMO valid and we must address them. -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres YaST Development ma@novell.com SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org