Re: Inching towards new release...

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:06:25AM -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> [1] I'm not planning to add resolving file dependencies from filelists.xml
>> to the initial repomd-support release.
>
> IIRC there was some statistics that had 97% of some FC release in the
> past not needing filelists.xml. This still leaves 3% breaking if
> filelists.xml is not considered. Unfortunately I don't know which
> packages are involved.

Yup, that's the kind of coverage in FC you'll get without the 
filelists.xml.

> For a release officially supporting repo-md I think the filelists.xml
> support should be part of it, but release early, release often is
> always a better plan. How about tagging repo-md support as a preview
> feature if filelists.xml support doesn't make it?

It'll need some warnings and disclaimers anyway for the initial release I 
think :) However I don't consider filelists.xml support to be a mandatory 
feature: you'll need it on FC/RHEL and derivates because of the way it's 
packaged, but you wouldn't need it on Conectiva for example (remember the 
--bloat option of genbasedir?)

Filelists.xml is a bit of a PITA in many ways: apt will probably have to 
download them on each apt-get update "just in case" which is a hefty 
download for very little use but dynamically downloading only when 
needed like yum does might not be possible on apt, at least without 
breaking Synaptic in the process.

 	- Panu -