Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (115 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne úterý 10 červenec 2007 21:46 Jan Kupec napsal(a):
> Got some more fun for you:
>
> pkg-bindings call:
> >> SourceMoveDownloadArea()
> >
> > used in inst_rpmcopy for InitialSourceCaching
>
> This is supposed to reattach repo medias into another directory. This is
> needed by installation to switch from using ram disk to using newly
> formatted disk for commit. To make it more fun, the reattach needs to
> happen right before commit (after installation proposal, after
> confirming to proceed with the installation).
>
> With old libzypp this was done by calling release followed by attach on
> each media handler of the media set which was associated with Source.
> Since we don't associate media handler with source anymore, and we use a
> completely separate MediaSetAccess in repo::PackageProvider, we must
> find another solution.
>
> Installation needs this *at least for commit* so that the packages are
> not downloaded into ram disk.
>
> I spoke to duncan already about not creating a new MediaSetAccess for
> each provideFile in PackageProvider (RepoProvideFile) but passing it
> instead from target commit. Then, if we can create this MediaSetAccess
> object with /prefered_attach_point/ parameter set to the new dir, that
> should be sufficient. Then we would have commit downloading packages
> into that dir.
>
> If we don't need to specify custom attach point elsewhere, then we're
> done. If we do, we'll solve it after we'll be finished with this one.

I'm not aware of any other real-life situation in which we could need this.

Thanks for looking into this!

Jiri

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Regards,

Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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