Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (115 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 03, Jiri Srain wrote:

> Dne pond??l?? 02 ??ervenec 2007 14:58 Michael Andres napsal(a):
> > On Sun, Jul 01, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > We have to think about the sequence and layers of configuration to make
> > > it consistent this time.
> > >
> > > I list the requirements that come to my mind
> > >
> > > - the most important cfg option is the root where you are operating on.
> > > In former times this was a Target option, and I think it still is (????)
> > >
> > > - known repositories raw metadata path, binary cache path, system
> > > architecture, etc, needs to be easily configurable/overridable. A
> > > zypp.conf file (ini file) would be a nice way to do it.
> > >
> > > So we have to determine the workflow:
> > >
> > > - when to set the target root
> > > - when do we read values from the config file
> >
> > Let's create a class that grants access to all these config values. An
> > Instance of this class is passed to ZYpp upon construction.
> >
> > ZYpp and it's subcomponents have to be adapted to take all config values
> > from this context class, and use them to initialize their's subcomponents.
> >
> > That way e.g. ZYpp::targetInit would loose it's 'root' argument. Zypp will
> > use the argument provided by the context class instead. That's probabely
> > the most significant change, because zypper/pkg-bindings have to tell the
> > root path quite early in their workflow (before accessing ZYpp).
> 
> This cannot work for the installation, since you cannot access the root before 
> the target system gets formatted and mounted and you need to use ZYPP for 
> software selection.

I don't want to access the target before targetInit. The idea was just to 
announce the 'root' you are going to use later. 

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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