Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Stefan Schubert <schubi@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Vidner schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to update oS 11.0 to SLES 11 Alpha2 using zypper dup.
> The proposed transaction only contained a dozen of packages, and it
> turned out that zypp thinks the SLES packages have no vendor
> specified. Is that a known bug? (Or a "feature"?)
>
> Consequently the solver thought that I would be changing the vendor
> of all packages and did not allow to update them.
> So I thought never mind, there I see a mention of "vendors.d" in the
> log file where I should be able to say that the empty vendor is
>   
Empty vendors are bad. Repo error ? Could you please generate a testcase ?
> equivalent to "SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany".
>
> But there is no documentation :(
>   
It is documented in the zypp.conf:
##
## Defining directory which contains vendor description files.
##
## One file in this directory reflects a group of equivalent vendors. e.G.:
## (filename is "nvidia" but could be any other name):
## ------------------------- file contains begin -----------------------
## [main]
##
## vendors = nvidia,suse,opensuse
##
## ------------------------- file contains end -----------------------
## Libzypp makes an string comparision (like strncmp, case-insensitive)
## whereas the beginning of the strings are compared only.
## e.G. vendor "opensuse11.0" is compatible to "openSuSE".
##
## Valid values: A directory
## Default value: {configdir}/vendors.d
##
# vendordir = /etc/zypp/vendors.d

> (And after reading the code I suspect that it is unusable because it
> assumes the vendor name does not contain a comma.)
>   
You only need the "beginning" of the string. See the docu above.
> Is this supposed to work at all?
>   
Yes. :-)

Greetings
Stefan

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