Feature/11.0/Libzypp

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Package Management (ZYpp) in openSUSE 11.0

Summary

A large collection of Package Management changes, ranging from PackageKit inclusion to Zypper improvements.

Rationale

Package management should be constantly progressing and moving forward. It is still a major complaint among openSUSE users and testers.

Benefits and/or Usecase

John used to use Smart in openSUSE 10.2, but finds package management more acceptable in 10.3. There are still many features from Smart that are not present in Zypper.

Julie wants to have an easy way for giving out package management permissions, finds that PackageKit is multi-platform and a decent FreeDesktop.org project. She also wants it to work with openSUSE, which means working with ZYpp.

Status

• Stage: Drafting
• Last Modified: --apokryphos 19:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• Percentage Completed: 10%

Detailed Description

Improved User interface

Work on design, usability of YaST the package management frontends.

PackageKit

PackageKit, building upon PolicyKit, allows to assign specific (administrative) rights in regards to software management.

New SAT solver

A new approach to dependency solving seems to overcome the limitations of the current solver, while implementing most of the requested features. See http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/fast-installation-tool

Build service integration

Client-side software management should be integrated with build service functionality in order to support online search and on-demand information like ratings and screenshots.

Redesign of the caches

This comprises the SOLV files and way to store the additional data to be retrieved on-demand, etc.

Zypper improvements

There is quite some work left to improve zypper, fix the bugs and fill the gaps.

Implementation

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Outstanding Issues

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Assignee

ZYpp Team:

• X to work on a
• Y to work on b

Documentation/Links

• Discussion on ZYpp-devel Mailing List
• PackageKit Homepage

Comments

See Talk:Feature/11.0/Libzypp.