Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (116 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

In order to allow workflows bound to patterns we need to extend the pattern 
definition on the media as well as the database and in-memory representation 
of a pattern. We need following tags:

"workflow_file" : string // file describing the workflow on the media
"workflow_file_checksum" : the same as other checksums
"workflow_order" : string // to allow ordering, string for better 
extendibility

(the names can be adapted to fit attribute naming schema)

The suggestions for the SuSEtags metadata format are

=Wkf
=WkfCSum (if not specified in content file)
=WkfOrd

ZYPP is not required to process this data anyhow (maybe except the checksum?), 
all that's needed is to deliver the data to YaST. The update of package 
bindings will be trivial.

The document is (inside Novell network) available at

http://users.suse.cz/~locilka/PatternsAndAddOnsWithWorkflows/proposal-2007-06-04.txt

Duncan, Jano, is it possible to get this implemented for 10.3?

-- 
Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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