TODO
author Kristian H?gsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Sun Apr 06 19:24:07 2008 -0400 (2008-04-06)
changeset 190 d8b7dd11813d
parent 180 9b84b59d9d50
child 200 4c4955871c21
permissions -rw-r--r--
Hide a bunch of depsolver internals in razor.c.
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Towards replacing rpm + yum (0.1):
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- installer part:
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   - pre install check; check that dirs can be created (no files where
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     want to create dirs), move config files according to file
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     flags. (.rpmnew etc)
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   - run hooks; probably fork to shell and in the parent just do a
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     write() of the hook section to a pipe to the shell.
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   - store rpm headers for installed packages.
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- rpm seems to consider glibc > 2.6.90 to mean greater than
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  2.6.90-anything.  That is, a comparison that doesn't mention the
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  release field, shouldn't regard the release field of pkgs it
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  compares against.  glibc-common-2.6.90 has
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	conflicts: glibc < 2.6.90, glibc > 2.6.90
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  since rpm doesn't let you do glibc != 2.6.90, and
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	requires: glibc = 2.6.90
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  will always pull in glibc.  But even with a != relation, would
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  glibc-2.6.90-16 be equal to 2.6.90?  glibc 2.7.90-8 dropped it in
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  favor of requires = 2.7.90-8 (#225806).
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- signed packages
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- download (libcurl?)
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- figure out how to canonically represent empty string... ~0?
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- space calculation before transaction, but ideally, do a number of
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  smaller transactions.
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- pre-link changing binaries and libs on disk screwing up checksum?
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- nail down byte-order of repo file.
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- version the sections in the file, put the element size in the header
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  so we can add stuff to elements in a backwards compatible way.
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  maybe not necessary, we can just add sections that augment the
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  sections we want to add to (similar to how rpm has add versioned
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  deps).
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- pipelined download and install; topo-sort packages in update set,
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  pick one with all deps in the current set, add it to the current set
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  and satisfy deps against update set => result: minimal update
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  transaction.  Queue download and install/update transaction for the
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  packages in the minimal set, start over.  This also makes the
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  installation phase much more interruptible, basically just stop
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  after a sub-transaction finishes.  As we keep the update set around
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  as a target, we can restart if needed.  Probably don't need to, can
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  just do a new update.  During a sub-transaction we should keep the
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  target set (i.e. the current set to be) around as a lock file
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  (system.repo.lock or so, see git) so that razor updates are
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  prevented if the systems crashes during an update.
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Misc ideas:
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- keep history of installed packages/journal of package transaction,
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  so we can roll back to yesterday, or see what got installed in the
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  latest yum update.
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- transactions, proper recovery, make sure we don't poop our package
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  database (no more rm /var/lib/rpm/__cache*).
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- use hash table for package and property lists so we only store
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  unique lists (like for string pool).
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- use existing, running system as repo; eg
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	razor update razor://other-box.local evince
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  to pull eg the latest evince and dependencies from another box.  We
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  should be able to regenerate a rzr pkg from the system so we can
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  reuse the signature from the originating repo.
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- Ok, maybe the fastest package set merge method in the end is to use
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  the razor_importer, but use a hash table for the properties.  This
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  way we can assign them unique IDs immediately (like tokenizing
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  strings).
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- test suite should be easy, just keep .repo files around and test
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  different type of upgrades that way (obsoletes, conflicts, file
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  conflicts, file/dir problems etc).  Or maybe just keep a simple file
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  format ad use a custom importer to create the .repo files.
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- try to clean up the
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	do { ... } while (((e++)->name & RAZOR_ENTRY_LAST) == 0);
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  idiom for iteration of directories.
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- overlay package sets?  mount a read-only /usr over nfs or from the
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  virt-host and have a local package set overlaid over the read-only
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  one.  shouldn't need new features in the core package set data
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  structure, but should be just conventions on top.  we have the base
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  package set from the r/o system, the overlay set from the local
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  system and we can have an effective package set which is the merge
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  of everything from the overlay into the base set.  the effective set
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  is easy to compute and we could do it on the fly or cache it.  or
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  maybe the effective set is the on-disk representation and the
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  overlay can be computed when needed, we just keep a link back to the
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  base.
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- incremental rawhide repo updates? instead of downloading 10MB zipped
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  repo every time, download a diff repo?  Should be pretty small,
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  especially if we don't have file checksums in metadata.  Filenames
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  and properties are for the most part already present, typically just
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  a version bump plus maybe tweaking a couple requires.  The upstream
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  repo can store multiple incremental updates in one big file and
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  provide an index file that maps updates for a given date (we should
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  use repo-file checksums though) to a range in the file: Download the
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  index file, search for a match for your latest rawhide.repo file,
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  download range of updates that brings it up to date.
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- use hash tables for dirs when importing files to avoid qsorting all
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  files in rawhide.
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Bugs:
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- eliminate duplicate entries in package property lists.