Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Martin Vidner wrote:

> > > - 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.

I disagree.  A provides is (at best) something which another entity can 
require.  A provide should not be misused to ease searching.  You can 
equally well define an fixed format for other random data, e.g. we could 
have attributes  'patch:fixes = "bnc#12345"', if we absolutely must.


Ciao,
Michael.
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