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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Manager major changes for Beta4 and FACTORY Tree
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:36:03 +0100
- Message-id: <m3d5hygb4c.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> * the package manager in beta4 will only have reduced functionality
>
> Can you elaborate? Will "yast2 sw_single" be able to add and remove
> packages and resolve dependencies?
If it does not, I'm not shipping beta4 ;-)
It will allow adding and removing of single packages but maybe not
adding of a complete "selection". Most of the "filters" you have on
the left will not work in beta4 - they will only work again with
beta5.
Resolving has to work.
>> We're still working on the integration of "libzypp" into our tree and
>> hope to have both update and new installation working.
>>
>> Together with libzypp, we get the zmd daemon, the rug command line
>> interface, the zen-updater, zen-remover, zen-installer packages. They
>> all handle YUM sources and additionally Zenworks servers as
>> installation sources.
>
> Is there some documentation that explains zen-updater and what to use
> instead of susewatcher? - and how to ;-)
We'll add infos and pointers to the release notes. If you have
anything to add or need, please file a bugreport against the component
"Release Notes" of SUSE Linux 10.1,
Andreas
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SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> * the package manager in beta4 will only have reduced functionality
>
> Can you elaborate? Will "yast2 sw_single" be able to add and remove
> packages and resolve dependencies?
If it does not, I'm not shipping beta4 ;-)
It will allow adding and removing of single packages but maybe not
adding of a complete "selection". Most of the "filters" you have on
the left will not work in beta4 - they will only work again with
beta5.
Resolving has to work.
>> We're still working on the integration of "libzypp" into our tree and
>> hope to have both update and new installation working.
>>
>> Together with libzypp, we get the zmd daemon, the rug command line
>> interface, the zen-updater, zen-remover, zen-installer packages. They
>> all handle YUM sources and additionally Zenworks servers as
>> installation sources.
>
> Is there some documentation that explains zen-updater and what to use
> instead of susewatcher? - and how to ;-)
We'll add infos and pointers to the release notes. If you have
anything to add or need, please file a bugreport against the component
"Release Notes" of SUSE Linux 10.1,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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