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Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel)

Feature #313090, revision 1
Title: allow different repo views depending on package management version 
  
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority 
    Requester: Important 
 
Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org 
 
Description: 
Sometimes there are bugs in the software stack that cause unforeseen problems 
when e.g. the update repo grows bigger and bigger over time. In the worst case 
the software stack might not be able to install updates at all anymore. We 
should have a defined way to avoid such situations.

My proposal would be to make zypp look for a differently named entry point to 
the repo first before falling back to repomod.xml. E.g. 'repomd-XX.xml' where 
XX is some internal revision counter. That way it would be possible to present 
only a minimal working repo to the unpatched software stack that allows it to 
install an update for itself. By using an optional extra file incompatibilities 
with other software stacks are avoided ie other repo parsers would always use 
the full repo. 
  
 
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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/313090