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Re: [softwaremgmt] rpm-md arbitrary package location
- From: Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:47:32 +0200
- Message-id: <20071017064732.GC25778@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Benji Weber <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Oct 16. 2007 13:25]:
[...]
>
> <location href="http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-1.4.0.118-suse.i586.rpm"/>
>
> However, this will not work with either zypp or smart, both will only
> accept a relative URL here.
>
> Is this by design? I couldn't find any documentation that stated one
> way or the other.
Thats one of the problems with the rpm-md format, missing specification
and 'best practices'.
But it should be fairly straightforward to add support for this
kind of referencing to existing implementations (like libzypp).
Klaus
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[...]
>
> <location href="http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-1.4.0.118-suse.i586.rpm"/>
>
> However, this will not work with either zypp or smart, both will only
> accept a relative URL here.
>
> Is this by design? I couldn't find any documentation that stated one
> way or the other.
Thats one of the problems with the rpm-md format, missing specification
and 'best practices'.
But it should be fairly straightforward to add support for this
kind of referencing to existing implementations (like libzypp).
Klaus
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