Snapshot of the day ;)

Panu Matilainen <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:38:33 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just put out yet-another snapshot of apt-repomd:
http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/apt-repomd-17032006.tar.bz2

What's new in this is the first step of a massive rework of rpm data 
related handling, and as you may notice it has already reduced the code 
size somewhat, more size-savings are coming once it's completed.

Please help testing this one - the changes affect all repository types and 
I'm certain there are regressions in dependency handling etc I've missed 
in my limited testing last night. There aren't any "new features" in this 
one really, but the fact that repomd and old style apt repositories now 
share a large amount of code means that for example allow-duplicated works 
now with repomd (whereas it was previously not handled at all).

Build-dep operation is completely broken by this snapshot, source 
repositories of repomd still aren't supported and apt-cache still doesn't 
show full dependency information in all cases, those are the next steps 
now. When testing, look for anomalies in installs, upgrades etc - eg 
dependency handling of normal operations and such.

 	- Panu -