Posts Tagged ‘ rpm ’

xz (formerly known as lzma utils) has gone beta!

As Lasse Collin, the author of xz & liblzma promised, xz went beta before the end of the year and he release the first beta a few hours before midnight. This means that the API is now final and that the format is stable and ready for use! This is great news as this new format, library [ READ MORE ]

Smart updated with more urpmi functionality implemented

Over the last week I’ve been messing a bit with smart again. :) I’ve now merged in 1.1.1 from trunk into my own mandriva branch and started work on a urpmi channelsync plugin. This plugin will read urpmi’s configuration from /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, use the same metalink data under /var/lib/urpmi and has also initial mirrorlist support using urpmi’s mirrors cache [ READ MORE ]

New pyliblzma release

I’ve just released pyliblzma 0.4.1. This release is mainly just fixes to build with liblzma 4.999.6 which I updated cooker to recently. I was also made aware of issues with smart & pyliblzma in Mandriva, the 0.4.0 release which added the LZMAFile class which were required by the info.xml.lzma support I recently added to smart, didn’t make [ READ MORE ]

PylibMetalink

Since I implemented the urpmi aria2+metalink stuff for urpmi earlier and has been starting to focus on doing work on smart now, trying to implement the neat stuff etc. from urpmi, I yesterday thought that it could be nice to implement python bindings for Tatsuhiro’s libmetalink library. This especially since the API was quite simple [ READ MORE ]