[OE-core] rpm: Recover RPM4 to OE-core

[Maciej Borzęcki]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Fan Xin <fan.xin at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Thanks for your info.
>
> Actually, our origin motivation is that we found smartpm is not maintained
> any more. We maintain smartpm for our distro at
> https://github.com/ubinux/smart2
>
> Then we realize smartpm should switch to python3. In order to solve this
> issue, there are four solutions as follows.
>
> [1] smart/RPM5
> [2] smart/RPM4
> [3] dnf/RPM5
> [4] dnf/RPM4
>
> I confirm that RPM5 have some bugs with python3 and I am not familiar with
> RPM. So I think the easy way to solve this issue is [2], recover RPM4 and
> solve the bugs in smartpm.
>
>>
>> It's also worth pointing out that we're strongly considering dropping
>> SMART in the next (2.3) development cycle[4].
>>
> Considering YP would like to drop smart in 2.3, I wonder YP would use
> [3]dnf/RPM5 or [4]dnf/RPM4 ?

BTW. do you recall the rationale behind abandoning zypper in 1.4? I'm
curious about the motivation for using smart given its Python
dependency.

-- 
Maciej Borzecki
RnDity