Hi all, I'm making a post to organize my thoughts and to let everyone know where things are with yum and plans or ideas that might come out in yum. Stuff - things that I thought were interesting/happy points Needing Love Stuff - things I thought need to be fixed - points of irritation for me Soon Stuff - things I want done soon, things that may already be in process, part of the way done, etc Middling Stuff - stuff in the middle distance away - these are being thought out/discussed etc, none of them are in stone Farther Stuff: You might consider these wishlist - some of them are just hard, others are waiting on other things to materialize. Some are just odd bits Misc Stuff: Things that need to be done but I've not done them mostly b/c I'm horribly lazy and/or busy. Docs Stuff: Docs that need writing/examples Stuff: Yum is working for what seems like a fair number of people on a fairly diverse set of architectures and linux distros. The number of yum repositories is a good lot and there are probably a lot more I don't know about. The number of people contributing code and ideas is going up. Needing Love Stuff: - the nevral needs to be written up newer to support multiple providing versions as well as version-specific erasure and multilib for the coming 64bit onslaught! :) - logger needs to be swapped out for the syslog-ing implementation of it - yummain.py needs to be simplified in a variety of ways to let more installation frameworks be strapped on top of it - clientStuff.py needs to be stripped of most of its functions and/or broken up into classes. Soon Stuff: - yum search will get implemented and should be nice - yum kickstart-like scripting mechanism for transactions(install, remove, update, groups, etc) - cached actions should be much more obviously implemented and should behave better, therefore making searches, lists and provides better Middling Stuff - handling of src.rpms on the server side so work can more readily begin on the client side - abstract the kernel-handling stuff so scripts can be run on arbitrary package transactions not just kernels - More polite exception handling so bug reporting can be more easily facilitated - preprocessing over config file to handle include= Farther Stuff: - YumException for capturing any sys.exit(1) calls more gracefully. - refine repo concept to allow arbitrary repo selection on the command line and some concept of default, disabled, enabled, etc in the repo definition - ngds to speed up the dep resolution - dependent on storage mechanisms - yum list deps [packagename] - yum list deps updates - other interesting things like that - yum localinstall myfile.noarch.rpm - handle transaction rollbacks - do gpg key importing from the command line. - verify pkgs by gpg signatures and by specific signatures - make yum-arch present functional lists of common unresolved dependencies in a repository for relative dep closure. - figure out how a good way to do pkg ordering to work with cdrom installations complete with prompting for change of disks, etc. Misc Stuff: - install-only-packages option under [main] for pkgs that should be 'installed' never 'updated' - ie: kernels, kernel modules, etc - make new kernel default option - this should probably happen when the kernel updating stuff is abstracted to handle arbitrary packages - rpm.setlogfile should be implemented to help logging - sanity checking on .hdrs and rpmdb and other things should happen to clean up broken bits that people cause by doing evil things like --force and --nodeps to rpm Doc Stuff: - yumgroups should be better documented to explain just how cool it can be :) - more examples of how to effectively use yum -c url://server/path mechanism to do cool tweaky things - more examples of how to setup your own local repositories for your systems - once available the script/kickstart stuff will need examples. So. I know this was a long list but if you find any of these things interesting or have already implemented some of them and care to send me a patch please do so. If you'd just like to comment on some of these ideas/problems that is also encouraged. The things above should not be seen as a roadmap or specifc plan, it is a list of things I thought about tonight, not much else. if you suggested something and I left it out it's b/c I'm not done thinking about it or, as is more likely the case, I forgot it. :) Thanks :) -sv
