[Yum-devel] to do list

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Mar 4 17:40:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 12:38 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Hey folks, 
>  I updated the devel todo list a bit. Some of these items are bluesky
> and some are easy to pick off.
> 
> if anyone wants to take on some of them just yell.
> 
> - more output patches - terje and favia
> - syslog output
> - history saving format - terje's ideas
> - txmbr.remove() calls requiring pkgs from txmbr, too
> - yum shell:
>     depsolve
>     check
>     exclude
>     enablerepo
>     disbalerepo
>     transaction list
>                 remove
>                 reset
>     setconfig
>     getconfig
>     
> - copyright date changes
> - exit to shell on depsolve failure
> - remove generate-rss
> - new tsflags
> - repackage support
> - groups w/--packages=optional, etc
> - groups w/full versions?
> - merge sean's patches to groups.py
> - work on more advanced groups concepts
> - clean up strings for translations
> - fix up error/result code strings - make more clear
> - update man page with shell information
>   - maybe yum-shell.8 man page
> - exactarch as list of pkgnames
> - fix up weird cases on update and multilib
> - update to not-quite-latest-version fix
> - kernel pruning (external?)
> - leaf-node pruning (external?)
> - clean up code, remove old code, reorganize code that
>   is in the wrong place.
> - pass packageobjects
> - generic po_from_pkgtup code for rpmdb, packagesack and txmbr
> - nightly cron job runs yum shell script
> - sql-based exclude non-compat arches   
> - cElementTree for import? 
>    - concerns anotherdep, improvement?
> 
>   

one more item here:
yum-utils package?
  repoquery, repo-rss, repomanage and repoclosure as starters for this? 

-sv





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