Re: [p2-dev] 3.8 / Juno wishlist

[sami wagiaalla <swagiaal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> [...] if you want to add items you are willing to work on contact us here too.

Hi Pascal,

I have two items:

First, I think that what would make rpm work well with the director is 
to have the director install units without moving the artifacts.

I.e. the rpm would put the artifacts in features/ and plugins/ and then 
tell the p2director to install and it would only update the metadata 
files. Right now that does not work because the director will not accept 
this ugly set up as a repository :). I also suspect that it would touch 
the files placed by rpm in features/ and plugins/ but I am just guessing 
here.

Now the reconciler does exactly that :) without the requirement of 
specifying the IUs. I am half way through experimenting with the Fedora 
rpms to get them to use the reconciler as described, and I think it will 
work perfectly. The only caveat is that I had to backup the metadata 
files run the reconciler, check its return value and restore the files 
if there was a failure. This brings me to the second Item: it would be 
nice if the reconciler had a dry-run mode.

I don't know if we will be able to work on these items but I thought I 
would throw them into the mix :)

Cheers,
  Sami