Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (50 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309041#c6 and the
following comments.

Jan Kupec wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i would like to achieve a new agreement about repository alias and name
> usage.
> 
> The *last agreement* is to *use alias internaly* by applications and
> *present name to the user* (see [1]). YaST now uses the URL as both the
> alias and the name by default and allows the user to change the name.
> But then you get a mess like this in zypper:
> 
> $ zypper sl
> # | Enabled | Refresh | Type  | Name
> 
>                                   | URI
> 
> --+---------+---------+-------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 | No      | Yes     | yast2 |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-Factory-non-oss/inst-source-extra/
>   |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-Factory-non-oss/inst-source-extra/
> 
> 2 | Yes     | Yes     | yast2 | stable
> 
>                                   |
> ftp://dist.suse.de/install/stable-x86
> 3 | No      | Yes     | yast2 |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/
> 
>   |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/
> 4 | No      | Yes     | yast2 |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory-debug/inst-source-debug/
> |
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory-debug/inst-source-debug/
> 
> In addition, zypper uses alias to as argment in repo handling commands
> and options (ok, you can use repo number (after i reimplement it -
> soon), but then you need to use zypper repos/lr/sl to list them each time).
> 
> Another thing is, that libzypp names the .repo files in
> /etc/zypp/repos.d according to the alias, which again creates a mess if
> urls are used.
> 
> My *proposal* is to use *alias as a short name* and the *name as a long
> name*. I.e., to use a user specified *short name/alias* as both alias
> and name by default, and leave the possibility to change the long name
> later (if not specified when ading the repo).
> 
> IMO, this way, the overall user experience (mainly for zypper users but
> also for YaST users) will increase.
> 
> If you don't like this idea for some reasons (e.g. the YaST users will
> need to enter the alias in addition to the URL, although they might like
> it :O), please, at least let's use something different internally in
> YaST for the alias, not the URL. Something shorter.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298035
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jano

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