Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (102 mails)

["Duncan Mac-Vicar P." <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>]

Vito De Tullio wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm an OpenSuse user. Usually I use smart to manage my programs, but 
> sometimes 
> I prefer zypper.
> How can I "import" smart channels into zypper repos?
> On https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/246959 I found a way to make the 
> zypper -> smart transition, but I cannot find an (easy... I could always type 
> all the /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo files by hand) way to make the smart -> 
> zypper conversion...
>   
With yum it is quite easy because you can just symlink /etc/yum.repos.d
to /etc/zypp/repos.d,

However, smart seems to read channels from /etc/smart/channels, which
have .channel extension. If you just symlink them, it should work,
because the format is the same:

# ln -s /etc/zypp/repos.d/openSUSE-11.1-Updates.repo
/etc/smart/channels/openSUSE-11.1-Updates.channel
# smart update
New channel 'openSUSE-11.1-Updates (openSUSE-11.1-Updates)' detected.
Include it? (Y/n): y

# rm openSUSE-11.1-Updates.channel
# smart update
Removing channel 'openSUSE-11.1-Updates (openSUSE-11.1-Updates)' was
suggested.
Do you want to remove it? (Y/n): y

So in theory, a cronjob that cleans all smarts channels (rm *.channel)
and then for every repo file in /etc/zypp/repos.d creates a file with
the same name but .channel extension ) should work (or the other way
around, from smart to ZYpp).

Another solution would be to patch smart to recognize .repo extension,
or ZYpp to recognize .channel extension. Then one could set smart
channel path to ZYpp's one or viceversa.

cheers
Duncan

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