Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (31 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 January 2011 12:16:31 Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > Found the root cause: zypper expects a sourcerpm tag in binary packages.
>
> Yes, if a package doesn't contain a "sourcerpm" tag, it's a source
> package.
> So your mtf-0.0.1-1.i586.rpm is really "mtf-0.0.1-1.src.rpm"?
>
> Zypper should be able to install src.rpm packages, please open
> a bug against it.

IMO no bug, as zypper uses a different command to onstall source rpms:

       source-install (si) <name> ...
              Install specified source packages and their build dependencies.

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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