Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Martin Vidner <mvidner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:04:55PM +0200, josef reidiner wrote:
> Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett napsal(a):
> > Patches now have bugzilla and security metadata. I already added support 
> > for displaying them in the user interface. However I am thinking on zypper 
> > now.
> > An user may want to say zypper "install the fix for bugzlla 3223".
> > We have 2 ways to implement this, and I would like to hear your feedback:
> > - use the current metadata to search for the issue and mark packages for 
> > install. This will need some "look" code in each application.
>
> Add to libzypp method which can install/uninstall query. something like in 
> locks (addLock(query)) so install(query). frontend only fill query and send 
> that want install result of it. So "look" code can be really short.

"Uninstall all packages with careless maintainers" ;-)
zypper rm `zypper se --search-descriptions teh`

zypper in -t patch `zypper se -d -t patch BNC#38810`
Well OK, we would need to remove the formatting from the search
output...

> Pepa
>
> > - Use the solver, and during parsing inject something like 
> > provides:fix(bugzilla:23444) when filling the repodata. Then applications 
> > could inject a requires in the solver fix(bugzilla:23444) and just solve. 
> > I dont't know the consequences of this.

It is cleaner than having to search the free form description.
Now that I think of it, having the patch metadata in a form
different from Provides seems wrong, because that only forces you to
write new code for what is served by Provides better.

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