Date |27 Jun 2002 01:52:39 -0400 >From |seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Hello! SV> Hey all, SV> As I'm sure you saw I'm sorta back from my vacation. Nice to see what youre back. SV> 0.8.9 appears to SV> work (more or less) and I've seen relatively few serious problems SV> reported. Not realy serious but some typos still here in yum code :) SV> I've heard from some grapevines that some folks are working on patches SV> to add features, fix stupidities on my part etc. Thats completely cool SV> and as Black has mentioned in the past I need to update the AUTHORS SV> file. :) Yes! Yes! :) By the way - i and one my friend make our oun cvs repository with yum code and code some stuff like http reget support etc. I want to work like this: we make part of code, test it and give to you a patches. If you agree with this - get ready to realy _big_ patches :) SV> I'd like to suggest the following for the future development stuff: SV> 1. for 1.0 (or whatever) we focus on making the limited functionality SV> provided currently work well and sanely. This limits the number of "cool SV> things" and it keeps from completely breaking currently running clients. SV> Of course "current functionality" is a hard-ish thing to define. I think SV> I wouldn't mind seeing group support be in 1.0 but not a WHOLE lot more SV> "new" features unless they are ones which have limited pain-causing SV> possibilities :) It is quite reasonable. What about make public CVS? I think it's need not only for me :) SV> 2. for things beyond 1.0 I know Icon has had some recent ideas on how to SV> make cool features appear in yum and I'm interested in pursuing those SV> along with just making it more functional for me and those around me :) I talk with Icon last night and i like his idea too :) SV> 4. I'd like to setup some way of having people get access to the cvs SV> tree. Lets take it as read that I don't want to use sourceforge at VA. I SV> might not mind gnu savannah but definitely not VA's sourceforge. I don't like nor savannah nor sf.net cause it's to bloated. All what we need - just cvs repository. All this callaboration tools only make you weak :) SV> 5. I'd like to start a listing of publicly accessible yum repositories. SV> - just so people can find stuff they have and add them to their SV> yum.conf's We are first! :) [mastersite] name=ASPLinux 7.2 Master Site baseurl=http://download.asplinux.ru/i386/RPMS.7.2/ [updates] name=ASPLinux 7.2 Updates baseurl=http://download.asplinux.ru/i386/updates/7.2/ SV> 6. list of features that have been requested: SV> a. mirror support SV> b. specify config file on command line by URL! Please! yum -c 'http://dulug.duke.edu/yum/config' update yum what can be better ?? :) SV> c. package groups SV> d. server side excludes SV> e. file url support SV> f. message dialog abstractions SV> g. more sane "we can't do this and don't even know how" dialogs for SV> conflict/dep resolution errors SV> h. better progress bars (ok, so this just a feature _I_ want :) SV> i. versioning of the headers/header.info file SV> I think thats all I heard/saw. If I missed some let me know. Yes! :) I think what we need to add "weight" for each servers. In short words - we don't need to download KDE10.0.2 from ftp.redhat.com if we have this package on ftp.myoffice.smthg :) also as i say - we make sort of abstraction for downloading. It's very usefull cause original urllib url handlers to weak for serious work. SV> I figure once 1.0 is happy/stable more people could/should hear about it SV> and maybe that will mean more ideas suggested. SV> So thats whats going on as far as I can see. I'd like to hear other's SV> opinions. I'll be back to my normal life sometime around 1 or 2 tomorrow SV> I'd bet so I might not be around in the morning but email here if you SV> have comments. Congratulations. I hope what you have excelent vacation! :) Thanks for your work. ........................................................................ IRC: irc.openprojects.net #asplinux Grigory Bakunov EMAIL: black@xxxxxxxxxxx ASPLinux Support Team ICQ: 51369901 http://www.asplinux.ru -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GCS/MU d-(--) s:- a- C+++>++$ UBLAVSX+++$ P+ L++++$ E++$ W++ N+>- o? K? w-- O- M V-(--) PS+ PE+ !Y PGP+>++++ t+ 5++ X+++ R+++ tv+>-- b+++ ?DI D+ G++ e>++$ h- r++ y+ z++(+++) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
