Re: feature requests galore!!!

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:56, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Will that work or were you thinking something scriptable (ie. 'grab -si ftp'
> dumping the --info of all matches for ftp)?


Actually i thought about it more and I dont need all that summary
information scriptable...but having the vendor and packager tags
scriptable would be nice.  Actually i really like to have grab be able
to warn me if I'm upgrading a package from a different Vendor/Packager
than the currently installed.  It would be nice if grab could know about
Vender/Packager while doing a --sysupdate so grab could only --sysupdate
packages from the same Vendor/Packager...and not just look at version
number.  If all you are going to do is point grab to redhat distro
mirrors for updates thats then this feature isnt a huge deal...but if
you are going to point to extra package repositories...like mozilla.org
or say to a project at sourceforge...you prob don't want a redhat update
being installed over your custom package or vice versa.  If you are
going to do things automagically with --sysupdate I think grab should
try to only update from the save vendor/packager...its sort of a small
safety net.  This might be a good way to get grab to work for ximian
packages as well...prevent downloading redhat's version of gnome when
xim pack is installed...and vice versa.

I'm sure i mentioned this before...and now that grab is caching deps
very well. This should not be so difficult to do now.

-jef