[ATrpms-devel] Upcoming repo updates: smart

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 08:49, Axel Thimm wrote:
> hope you had some nice time during the Xmas break.

Woulda been better if I didn't get sick... :-)

> In the last week I have been preparing quite a load of packages that
> were quite intertwined together so an in-between update was quite
> difficult to do (which is why the yum Requires: Requires bug is still
> in the online repo).
>
> The package that stirred this up was mainly smart
> (http://smartpm.org/). It is a very promising alternative to apt and
> yum

Its definitely very cool. Been using it on both my workstation at home and at 
work.

> but in ATrpms' context it makes sense only if it can besupported 
> for all platforms. As it requires a very recent python and pygtk2 this
> cascaded into a lot of neccessary base package upgrades like
>
> python24, tcl/tk, gtk2, libtiff, libglade2, libXft, libXrender,
> gtk-doc, atk, pango, freetype, fontconfig, rpm, yum, yum20,
> up2date/rhnlib
>
> and some more.
>
> I would like to release them in bleeding, but that would break a lot
> of atrpms-kickstart startup procedures (I'm thinking mainly of Jarod's
> guide).

Which is already hurting a bit... :-\

> Releasing them straight into stable is asking for a different 
> kind of troubles.

Very true. What exactly do you think is going to break, as far as my guide 
goes?

> I'm leaning towards going bleeding. Any opinions?

Probably have to start in bleeding, and we'll figure something out to get 
around it. I've got a 3-day weekend coming up...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jarod at wilsonet.com
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