YaST/Research/YaST on other Distributions

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Description

YaST should build and run on other major distributions. Packages should be built from the same sources and special patches should be includeded upstream.

Relevance to YaST/openSUSE

YaST is very popular, but it is limited to the openSUSE community size. openSUSE can gain new developers if other people have interests in YaST too.

Goal

Short term:

• Have a package set for Fedora, with the most important modules and complete package management stack.

Long term:

• Have a package set for Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu, with the most important modules and complete package management stack.

Scope

• Porting YaST to other UNIX or non-UNIX systems.

Related technologies

Typical use case

• Joe User installs Fedora. He wants to set up his web server in an easy way.
• He adds the Fedora repository from YaST project in the openSUSE build service
• He is able to run YaST in Fedora.

Required knowledge and skill level

Dev. environment/equipment

• Requires a osc build environment. Virtual machine with Fedora is recommended.

Participants

• User:Mvidner (will do it, but later)
• Michal Zugec (will do it, but later)

Division of work and schedule

References

• Research of possibility: running YaST anywhere
• The greatest unknown openSUSE 11.0 package management feature
• I’m in process of getting the zypp stack working on Fedora
• Zypp stack in Fedora? (Hint: Interoperability)
• Review Request: zypper - easy to use command line package manager
• Review Request: libzypp - ZYpp is a Linux software management engine
• Review Request: sat-solver - Satisfyability Solver library which can be used to compute inter-package dependencies.