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Re: [opensuse-factory] Packagage Groupings - From Selections in 10.1 to Patterns in 10.2
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:55:10 +0200
- Message-id: <hopsgbno5d.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:18:00AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> This misses some of the selections and introduces new ones. This is
>> really a first step for discussion. I would like you to come up with
>> better high-level proposals!
>>
>> Let's not discuss "we need this pattern as well" - but let's discuss
>> and agree on the general framework and then let's discuss adding
>> further patterns.
>
> A realy nice idea. How does it work? Does it still use the *.sel things,
> or is it something completely new? I am asking because with makeSUSEdvd if
> you add your own RPMs, a makeSUSEdvd.sel is made, making it possible to
> select during installation.
It uses *.pat files ;-).
>
> So what are the technical differences between what we have and what we
> will get? Will adding one cause trouble over the other?
You cannot mix selections and patterns in a product - and we will
remove all selection support now.
>> Btw. we have a nice way of adding new, third-party patterns: Basically
>> all you need is to have a lightweight add-on product that only has
>> patterns, but no RPMs. So one could create his or her favourite
>> package collections and make them available as an add-on source.
>> Every repository can add patterns.
>
> And is there information on that as well?
Not yet AFAIK.
>> Btw. I've put the above on the wiki at:
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Patterns
>
> Thanks.
> The idea is nice, yet it needs a lot of extra info to look at.
Andreas
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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:18:00AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> This misses some of the selections and introduces new ones. This is
>> really a first step for discussion. I would like you to come up with
>> better high-level proposals!
>>
>> Let's not discuss "we need this pattern as well" - but let's discuss
>> and agree on the general framework and then let's discuss adding
>> further patterns.
>
> A realy nice idea. How does it work? Does it still use the *.sel things,
> or is it something completely new? I am asking because with makeSUSEdvd if
> you add your own RPMs, a makeSUSEdvd.sel is made, making it possible to
> select during installation.
It uses *.pat files ;-).
>
> So what are the technical differences between what we have and what we
> will get? Will adding one cause trouble over the other?
You cannot mix selections and patterns in a product - and we will
remove all selection support now.
>> Btw. we have a nice way of adding new, third-party patterns: Basically
>> all you need is to have a lightweight add-on product that only has
>> patterns, but no RPMs. So one could create his or her favourite
>> package collections and make them available as an add-on source.
>> Every repository can add patterns.
>
> And is there information on that as well?
Not yet AFAIK.
>> Btw. I've put the above on the wiki at:
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Patterns
>
> Thanks.
> The idea is nice, yet it needs a lot of extra info to look at.
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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