Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (84 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Peter Poeml wrote:

> I noticed a new file type on mirrors, a repo.solv file. 
> http://ftp.nux.ipb.pt/pub/dists/opensuse/repositories/Apache:/Modules/Apache_openSUSE_10.3/repodata/repo.solv
>
> It turned up in the build service, but I assume it could also turn up in 
> distro or update trees.

Eventually.

> I need to know how to handle these files and would appreciate some 
> details about them.

It's the binary equivalent of the XML and susetags files for the 
repository metadata used as the native data format of sat-solver.  You can 
look at the content with dumpsolv from satsolver-tools.  IIRC the current 
.solv files you see in repositories is generated by a quite old version of 
the tools that Adrian installed once on the build servers.

Currently libzypp does _not_ try to download or look at these files.  I.e. 
right now you don't need to handle them :-)  Some features are still 
missing to make them safely and nicely usable.

But yes, they are generated at the same time also the XML files are 
generated.

In the future there will be several SOLV files, a base one, one for 
each language and possible one for filelists (i.e. similar to how 
currently there are multiple XML files for one repo).


Ciao,
Michael.
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