Re: 0.5.15cnc7 release candidate

Gustavo Niemeyer <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:21 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Greetings Panu!

> Excellent. It's been a long time since cnc6 :)

Indeed. I'm sorry about that. :-(

> I've a couple of pending patches that I'd like to see in cnc7:
> - Clean up tons of warnings from documentation build (by Ville Skyttä)
>   http://laiskiainen.org/apt/patches/apt-0.5.15cnc6-docbook.patch
> - Update the python bindings to current API
>   http://laiskiainen.org/apt/patches/apt-0.5.15cnc6-python-update.patch

Please, go ahead and commit them.

> The last one is perhaps a bit controversial - it makes apt take readonly
> lock on rpmdb instead of exclusive rw lock during initial dependency
> calculations. I've been using this on hundreds of hosts at work and it's
> been included in Fedora Extras apt without any complaints or noticed
> brokenness though...
> http://laiskiainen.org/apt/patches/apt-0.5.15cnc6-rdonly.patch

If you don't mind, I'd like to keep that as an external patch, at
least for now.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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