Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (227 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> [Apr 14. 2008 14:01]:
> 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.

This seems the right implementation, esp. when this information is
properly provided in the <references> list.

> - Use the solver, and during parsing inject something like 
> provides:fix(bugzilla:23444) when filling the repodata.

Although this looks nice, I fear it won't scale to
other bugzillas or other bug reporting tools resp. ids (i.e. CVEs).

Klaus
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