Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 27 13:04:13 UTC 2009



On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Michael Schroeder 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?
>

is libsatsolver supporting file deps as well?

Thanks!
-sv




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