Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (66 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009 13:23:54 Peter Poeml wrote:
> > $ zypper addlock foo
>
> This sounds as if updates of the package are totally blocked then. Is
> that the case? I don't want to avoid installing/upgrading/removing of
> the package. It would be wrong to block regular updates to the package
> (which would concern me).
>
> > this will add the lock to /etc/zypp/locks, see also 'man locks'
>
> I also looked into that man page yesterday, because it is linked from
> the zypper man page, but I have to admit that I don't understand a word.
> Too abstract for me. :-(

Basically the locks file contains a set of serialized queries. 
All items the query matches get locked.


> On a related note, I miss a feature similar to "exclude" which comes
> in very handy. Practically the opposite of "exclude", and I use it
> rather often. It's called includepkgs in yum.conf speak (see
> http://linux.die.net/man/5/yum.conf) and its purpose is that it lets me
> ignore all but (a) certain package(s) from a repository.
> For instance, when I want to get (and update) some tool from
> network:utilities, but I don't want a pcap library that happens to be
> there (no thanks!).

For this we had to enhance the queries to support a "NOT".

        -----lock-----
        repo:          network:utilities
        solvable_name: NOT some_tool

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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