Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:08:40PM +0200, Jan Kupec wrote:
> Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > Why's there a different interface? Can't zypper just use the repo
> > command set and use type "service" for a service?
>
> Because it's quite different thing - it's a repository index, which 
> serves for auto-managing repositories on your machine - it's one level 
> higher in the repo management.

Maybe it's different internally, but the interface looks very
similar.

> You can't e.g. specify a service as the --repo (well, that could be 
> transformed into individual repos),

But that would be a feature for the future, wouldn't it? I.e.
"install a package from a service".

> you still need two different command 
> for listing services and listing repos (standalone and the ones from 
> services),

"zypper lr -t service"?

> and you still need to manipulate both the services, and the 
> repos they contain, which you can't do using one command set (how would 
> you e.g. disable a repository within a service?).

My suggestion was to make "zypper lr" show both the services and
the repositories. You would disable a repo within a service like
with your implementation.

I must admin that I don't know the exact specification of services
(is there some documentation), so maybe I'm missing something.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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