Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (41 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:42:39PM +0100, Ladislav Slezak wrote:

> > is it possible to install packages from YCP by using the
> > supplements information?
> >
> > E.g. xfsprogs.spec contains "Supplements: filesystem(xfs)". I
> > want to do something like this:
> >
> >   Package::InstallAll(["filesystem(xfs)"]);
>
> Unfortunately this does not work.
>
> The minor problem is that the rpm check call is not properly escaped:
>
> 2009-02-25 14:29:24 <3> muffin(17814) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 
> sh: -c:
> line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 2009-02-25 14:29:24 <3> muffin(17814) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 
> sh: -c:
> line 0: `rpm -q --whatprovides filesystem(xfs)'

Well, missing shell quoting is likely a bug if not a security
issue.

> The real problem is that Package::InstallAll() expects list of packages, not 
> supplements.
>
> There is Pkg::PkgQueryProvides() call, but it works with "provides" set,
> "supplements" is something different :-(
>
> To support this functionality we would add a new pkg-binding. If you really 
> need it
> then open a bug report or a FATE entry.

Thanks, I'll do so.

Arvin
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