Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (115 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne úterý 03 červenec 2007 14:40 Michael Andres napsal(a):
> 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.

This should work for standard installatoin, but not for instlalation into the 
directory, since the directory is specified in the same proposal as software. 
There we need to specify the root after ZYPP is already been used for other 
purposes.

Jiri

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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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