Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (64 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

Michael Andres wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, Jan Kupec wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > in order to support repository index services (NU type), we need to 
> > introduce a function returning an identifier of the OS. Zypp will use this 
> > to filter corresponding repositories from the repo index.
> >
> > Currently we use OSName-arch (e.g. sles-10-x86_64). No problem to get the 
> > arch, but how to get the OSName? Do we store this somewhere?
> >
> > As for the interface, i suggest to place the functions to ZConfig:
>
> Take into account that our ZConfig handling is not clean, if we use 
> --root. 

What exactly is the problem or ambiguity?

> (in fact we had to read the target systems ZConfig and re-initialize 
>  all already launches components according to the new settings.)

i'm not completely sure what this means :(

> Until we realy do this those values should probably associated with the 
> Target and not with ZConfig.

I thought about ZConfing in order to be able to play around with 
arch/distros other than the system's in --root; i.e. pretend that you 
are on another system.

j.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx