the future of software provider

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Jan 13 12:37:49 UTC 2014


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On 01/13/2014 06:55 AM, Michal Minář wrote:
> Hello dear OpenLMI followers.
> 
> I'd like to know your opinion on migrating LMI Software Provider
> to PackageKit. In particular what priority does it have?
> 
> All the pros and cons are listed in upstream ticket: 
> https://fedorahosted.org/openlmi/ticket/199
> 
> Certainly this migration is desired. What I'd like to know is
> whether this shall take precedence over other feature requests
> targeted for OpenLMI 1.1.0. If not, yum implementation would get
> some enhancements, but rewrite would be delayed thanks to them, and
> it would take more time to complete it.
> 
> Main features to be implented in software provider: * listing
> updates * listing package dependencies * support for mass update
> 

For clarity, these ^^^ are the features that could potentially be
delayed by a rewrite to a PackageKit back-end.

> I'm in favor of making the rewrite the highest priority. What do 
> you think?

Let's discuss this at today's public IRC meeting (acknowledging that
it's a little short notice and we will still listen to email-based
responses as well.
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