Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

[yersinia]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Michael Schroeder <mls at suse.de> wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm the author of the "libsatsolver" library, a library solves
> package dependencies with a SAT algorithm.
> This library is currently used in SUSE by YaST/zypp. I'm currently
> trying to make it less SUSE specific like adding support for package
> coloring and different repo handling, but I'm pretty sure I didn't
> catch all things where Fedora is different from SUSE.
>
> To test things I've written a small application called "solv" that
> works like a very tiny package manager. It's available via:
>
>
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=Fedora:11&q=libsatsolver-demo
>
> (To get the src rpm search for "libsatsolver")
>
> The package contains just a single file, "/usr/bin/solv". It can
> be run as normal user, but then the transaction can't be commited.
> Also, the repository metadata caching mechanism needs write access
> to /var/cache/solv. If it can't write there, it still works but
> downloads the metadata again every time it is called.
>
> So, if you have some spare time, could you give it a try and tell
> me where it works well/ does stupid things/ doesn't work at all?
>
> Thanks,
>  Michael.
>

BTW, if you want a wider audience for your project, outside the narrow
circle of people involved in  rpm development :=) for example, so that it
can  be considered for inclusion in different distributions from OpenSUSE,
you should, as usual,  publish it as a separate and autonomous project. This
is what  do yum and smart for example, both in Fedora repository.

Regards

(aside)

in a (perhaps old but not i cannot check now the latest release) RHEL5
release glibc don't have qsort_r (
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173) so the code don't
compile. http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2007-q4/msg00436.html
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