Development and pending features

[Grant McWilliams]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:

>
> I finished most of the hacking/developing on the features I had planned so
> far,
> and they should now be available in Launchpad for review comments and
> testing...
>
> https://launchpad.net/smart
>
> Thought I'd try to summarize what the bugs and branches have listed over
> there.
> So here goes what I think would be some nice features for future Smart
> versions:
>
>
> Platform support
>
> * bugfixes
> - the patch for file descriptors, to work on Mac OS X (old patch from
> MacPorts)
> - add patch for rpm.archscore, to work with older RPM versions: 4.4.7 and
> 5.0.0
>
> * plugins
> - add yumchannelsync and zyppchannelsync plugins, in addition to
> aptchannelsync
>  yumchannelsync is for Fedora usage, and zyppchannelsync is for openSUSE
> usage
>
> * fink
> - add support for "darwin-i386" deb packages, in addition to "i386"
> (linux2)
> - add support for "fink-virtual-pkgs", system requirements for the Fink
> debs
>
> * slack
> - add support for .tbz (bzip2) and .tlz (lzma) packages, in addition to
> .tgz
> - add features: requires/conflicts relations, checksums, compressed
> metadata
>
> New Smart features
>
> * reference
> - improves the existing parsing of reference URLs, to add more channel
> support
>  adds a new "Reference" tab to the GUI interface, for viewing the
> information
>
> * changelog
> - reads changelog from rpm database or files, mandriva hdlists or rpm
> metadata
>  adds a new "Changelog" tab to the GUI interface, for viewing the
> information
>
> * groups
> - reads group (virtual package) information from yum comps.xml and yast
> patterns
>  not the same as the existing smart groups, which come from packages (e.g.
> rpm)
>
> * errata
> - reads update errata information from external data, and adds to package
> info
>  information available: type, date, summary, description, reference URLs
> (CVE)
>
> Suggested features
>
> * arch (backend/channel)
> - support for Arch Linux / pacman packages
>
> * cocoa (interface)
> - support for Mac OS X's "Cocoa" interface
>
> * sqlite md
> - support for Yum repodata in SQLite format
>
> * delta rpm
> - support for "delta" (difference) packages
>
>
> I grouped them by "minor" (0.53) and "major" (0.60) and "future", as I see
> it.
> Didn't include the vague "improve documentation" or "revise interface",
> either.
>
> Tested on Mac OS X with RPM5, MacPorts and Fink - as well as with various
> repos
> from other Linux distros such as: Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva,
> Vector...
>
> Thoughts ?
> --anders
>
>

Thanks, is supporting GPG signed packages anywhere in the roadmap? The push
at work is going to make this critical for us at some point.


-- 
Grant McWilliams

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
Windows."
Now they have two problems.
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