Upcoming changes (in 1.4.1)

[Jeff Johnson]

On Aug 15, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> 
> Here's a list of the upcoming changes in Smart 1.4.1:
> 
> - Changes to RPM version comparison, @arch and :distepoch
> 
> Some distributions, like Unity 2011 and Mandriva 2011,
> now append a "Distepoch" component to the traditional
> Epoch, Version, Release (EVR) tuple. This needs to be
> handled in the parsing code, even if not used by smart.
> 
> All version comparisons now need to use "vercmp" rather
> than "strcmp", so that they account for these tuples.
> There is a new helper function added called "checkver",
> which compares two version strings for equality (bool).
> 

Should some of this be pushed into rpm-python?

Could you also try to populate the repository origin
of the package? This should be pretty simple:
	A call to headerSetOrigin() somewhere.
There's also (used by rpmrepo but otherwise mostly *shrug*)
in diminishing priority:
	headerSetDigest()
	headerSetStatbuf()
	headerSetStartOff()
	headerSetEndOff()
	headerSetBaseURL()
that would make it easier to re-generate repo-md spewage directly
from whatever is installed by smart in an rpmdb.

> - Recommends will now be installed by default, like apt
> 
> There are two settings: "install-recommends" (true) and
> "install-suggests" (false) that can be used to change the
> behaviour, if needed. These values affect the *parsing*,
> so any change requires updating the cache - from files.
> 
> Everything still uses Requires, there are no "weak"
> dependencies in the depsolving code that Smart uses.
> The same goes for "Requires(missingok):" in RPM, but
> those are already loaded so there's no big difference.
> 

Is this apt-only? There is no differentiated Recommends: <-> Suggests:
in *.rpm I'm aware of.

> - File locking on (Open)Solaris need some special code
> 
> - The ARM "EABI" architecture wasn't properly detected
> 
> - Smart should show the original channel for a package
> 
> - The GUI needs a Preferences dialog, for the settings
> 
> Details, see https://launchpad.net/smart/+milestone/1.4.1
> 
> --anders
>