[Fedora-packaging] Re: Generic filtering macros...

[Chris Weyl]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sunday 31 May 2009, Chris Weyl wrote:
>
> >   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterRpmAutoReqProvFiltering
> >
> > Any feedback, good or bad, would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff Johnson notes in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502403#c1
> that PLD has a general mechanism for that as well already deployed.  The
> feature page does not mention whether existing solutions have been
> examined,
> and if they have, why one of them has not been adopted but instead a new
> one
> has been implemented.  I suggest adding such a section and examining at
> least
> PLD, SUSE and Mandriva.
>
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I've added this, though it's brief and based on a 30-minute examination of
the two:


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterRpmAutoReqProvFiltering/OtherFilteringSystems

The "PLD" one, as near as I can figure, is a direct implementation in the
rpm5.org codebase.  (Corrections welcome.)

Tibbs suggested bringing this before the FPC...  It sounds like it makes
sense to do it this way, though I'm still unclear as to how to get it on the
agenda.

                           -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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