https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801920
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801920#c4
--- Comment #4 from Robert Schweikert
I could look into kiwi's xml parsing mechanisms and try to rewrite the patch such that it uses an entry in config.xml.
Well the XML is in flux right now and it will be difficult to add new stuff for a while.
Marcus, what do you think?
<packaManagerOption name=".....">.......</packageManagerOption> The option in question only applies to zypper, and in particular only to the install subcommand of zypper (in contrast to e.g. addrepo), so a future-proof option name would probably be "zypperInstallDownloadMode" or something like that.
Yes, this option only applies to zypper, but every package manager we support has a plethora of command line options. Today you need --download-<mode> someone else will need --another-option tomorrow. It is not reasonable to expect for kiwi to parse them all and pass them along to the various package managers. Thus from a kiwi perspective we have to find a way to generalize the concept such that it can be applied in a general sense. The general concept is reasonably obvious as "Influence package manager behavior", based on what we already have the next level is also reasonably obvious "support in the XML" however, the details are not necessarily very obvious. Currently I would lean toward letting the user provide a package manager options file at the top level of the configuration directory and encode the name of the file in the XML. But I have not thought through the consequences this or a enumerated option where each option passed shows up in the XML. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.