Re: 0.5.15cnc7 release candidate

Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:31:49 +0200 (EET)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Greetings Panu!

Greetings to you, been a while :)

>> 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.

Ok, done.

>
>> 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.

No problem, it's such a trivial patch to carry around.

 	- Panu -

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