Feature changed by: Jens Grabinger (jensemann126) Feature #320385, revision 3 Title: Let Zypper know the version number of openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Bielefeldt (pbiel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All repo names in openSUSE are structured to have the version number/name in it, such as http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/ openSUSE_Leap_42.1 / (for 42.1); I do a lot of repo handling via bash scripts and I find myself over and over again telling someone: "Here, this is a script to install all the software you'll need right now… But you have to specify your version string in the repo's name before running it" – 50% chance I will get asked "What do you mean? Where shall I put what?!" I think it was more convenient and less error prone if zypper commands yould use a variable such as $osVersion that can be put to replace the string. On openSUSE Leap 42.1 zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/$osVersion/ "Science" would than automatically change to zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ "Science" and so forth… Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature would it make easier for admins to write scripts that handle software management/installation on different versions of openSUSE. It would also facilitate writing advice to people on the internet (e.g. the openSUSE wiki) on how to perform certain actions that concern repo management. + Discussion: + #1: Jens Grabinger (jensemann126) (2016-04-23 14:01:15) + Version info is contained in the file /etc/os-release. You can simply + source this file from your bash script and you get variables like $NAME + and $VERSION. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320385