Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (148 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 2. März 2008 schrieb Christian Morales Vega:
> The OBS has the repository zypp:/Backport where we can find libzypp
> 4.3.0 for openSUSE 10.3. There is any real interest in the new libzypp
> being tested over 10.3 or isn't supposed to work correctly in anything
> but Factory anyway?
> If test over 10.3 are of interest the package should be improved to
> allow parallel installation with the native libzypp version of the
>
> distribution. At least file conflicts should be resolved:
> >        file /etc/zypp/zypp.conf from install of libzypp-4.3.0-2.1
> > conflicts with file from package libzypp-3.26.8-0.1 file
> > /usr/share/applications/package-manager.desktop from install of
> > libzypp-4.3.0-2.1 conflicts with file from package libzypp-3.26.8-0.1
>
> but probably should be changed to follow the "Shared Library Packaging
> Policy" (that already thinks about parallel instalation).

This won't work for libzypp as it uses /var/cache/zypp and /etc/zypp 
and it would share it with the "old" libzypp. So if you want to test
the repo, you need to replace your libzypp completely.

Greetings, Stephan
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