Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 1/19/07, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
>> > And also thinks that a pattern should not depend on rpm packages that
>> > other rpm packages included in the pattern also depends on, as there
>> > is no need for that. This is not a problem technical speaking it's
>> > just harder to maintain and confusing to people.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand you here.  Could you rephrase this, please?
>>
> Well I can try to explain what I mean with an example. (names as so on
> is just imagination)
>
> Say we have a backup pattern. Something like this:
> ----
> securebackup  (the tool that does the backups)
> tar
> bzip2
> openssh
> ---
>
> The securebackup tool uses tar and bzip2 to do the backup then scp it
> to another server. This means that securebackup rpm depends on tar,
> bzip2 and openssh.
>
> In my meaning the backup pattern is wrong. It should only depend on
> securebackup as that will install tar, bzip2 and openssh. This means
> when securebackup is dead upstreams and no one will fork it. It's very
> simple to change the backup pattern to depend on gnubackup that uses
> tar, gzip and ssh instead. No need to change the backup pattern
> removing bzip2 and adding gzip to it.
>
> I hope this example explains what I was talking about.

Then we agree completely.  I might not have done it consequently in my
patterns, so you find redundancy, please tell me and I fix it ;-)

Andreas
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