Dňa Ut 30. Máj 2006 10:57 Pascal Bleser napísal:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
One question we have is how the new tools rug, zen-updater and zmd compare to what we had before with YaST Online Update and suseWatcher. We are interested in every feedback ranging from architecture, design or used standards and their enhancements.
It should be possible to disable and remove the whole ZMD stuff and still be able to work from commandline.
Indeed. rug is hardwired to ZMD though, AFAIK.
What's the added value of ZMD on 10.1, given that the resolver engine is in zypp anyway ?
The only advantage of having ZMD is to be able to manage SL 10.1 instances from Zenworks (for which you have to buy licenses from Novell). Or is there anything else ?
If that's the only real advantage, I consider it a pretty high price to pay, because it's a rather useless daemon running on the system. At the very least, it should be optional (and turned off on every SL installation when you didn't buy Zenworks).
Though another point is that rug mandates ZMD. Unfortunately rug is the only CLI tool to install packages on 10.1 (well, there's y2pmsh, which works but... it's the old engine ;)).
Other question: is there any particular reason for yast2 to use zypp directly instead of talking to ZMD [1] ?
[1]http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/7/78/Package-management-in-code10. png
IMHO, it looks like either a) it's a hack b) it's necessary because there's no way to have yast2 talk to ZMD because ZMD is implemented with Mono c) both ;)
No, see Duncan's post and mine: ZMD is optional component and YaST needs a way to install packages in a restricted environment during the installation. Stano