Hi, any comments? Added Michael to cc as this is backend related. thanks, Michal Michal Marek wrote:
===== idea 1 =====
My idea is to use the same <enable>/<disable> notation as used for packages, obsoleting the <uservisible> tag. Eg.
http://novell.com/package/metadata/suse/pattern" xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm" <name>my pattern</name> <summary>my packages</summary> <description>my packages (standard build)</description> <publish> <disable repository="repo2" /> </publish> .... </pattern>
http://novell.com/package/metadata/suse/pattern" xmlns:rpm="http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/rpm" <name>my pattern</name> <summary>my packages</summary> <description>my packages (special build)</description> <publish> <disable repository="repo1" /> </publish> .... </pattern> Of course, in real life we would have multiple <disable> lines and would have to update them from time to time. Example (still shortened):
<description>PHP 5 (built against stock apache and mysql)</description> <publish> <!-- disable all but the base repositories --> <disable repository="server_apache_openSUSE_10.2" /> <disable repository="server_apache_openSUSE_10.3" /> <disable repository="server_database_openSUSE_10.2" /> <disable repository="server_database_openSUSE_10.3" /> <!-- ... and so on for sles9, sles10, 10.0, 10.1, Factory... --> </publish>
<description>PHP 5 (built against latest apache)</description> <publish> <!-- disable all but the server_apache_* repositories --> <disable repository="openSUSE_10.2" /> <disable repository="openSUSE_10.3" /> <disable repository="server_database_openSUSE_10.2" /> <disable repository="server_database_openSUSE_10.3" /> <!-- ... and so on for sles9, sles10, 10.0, 10.1, Factory... --> </publish>
===== idea 2 =====
Above is bettern than nothing, but quite too much typing and maintenance. So another idea is to allow the <enable>/<disable> tags to select repositories by some king of globbing or reqular expressions. Example:
<description>PHP 5 (built against stock apache)</description> <publish> <!-- disable all but the base repositories --> <disable repository="server_apache_*" match="glob" /> <disable repository="server_database_*" match="glob" /> </publish>
<description>PHP 5 (built against latest apache)</description> <publish> <!-- disable all but the server_apache_* repositories --> <disable /> <!-- AFAICS enable overrides disable in the current code, which fits our needs --> <enable repository="server_apache_*" match="glob" /> </publish>
What do you think? I can do the coding if you like the proposal :)
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