http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543510
User ma@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543510#c6
Michael Andres changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium
Status|NEEDINFO |NEW
Info Provider|eulenreich@gmx.de |
Severity|Normal |Enhancement
--- Comment #6 from Michael Andres 2009-10-02 02:27:47 MDT ---
Well, the alias identifies a repo that contains a collection of packages. The
vendor tells you who made the specific package. These are 2 different things.
Packages made by the same vendor may replace/update each other, no matter in
which repo you found them. Vice versa one repo may contain packages from
different vendors.
Name and Alias are indeed similar. Alias needs to be unique and identifies the
repo, while the name should be a human readable string that can be displayed in
a UI. An auto-generated unique alias may look like 4f89a8bdc4b3e8fde5fc077040.
But on a system like yours, where the aliases are in a good shape, the name
column seems to be superfluous.
Maybe we can enhance the 'zypper lr' output. E.g.
'zypper lr' Alias and Name (or a default from zypper.conf)
'zypper lr -a' show Alias
'zypper lr -n' show Name
Nice would be default options in zypper.conf:
lr_default = -a -n
So one can change it to e.g.:
lr_default = -a -p
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