Feature changed by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Feature #323096, revision 11 - Title: [R] Load slideshow from RPM from the product + Title: Load slideshow from RPM from the product Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With converting DVD installation images from SUSETags to repomd, we need a new location for the slide show. The idea is, to agree on a naming schema, put the slide show in an RPM on the media in the product repo and let the installer search for it there and load it into the inst-sys. + Relations: + - Tracking in Trello (url: https://trello.com/c/tWqSwP1R/1405-sle-15-suse-tags-removal-4-release-notes-...) Discussion: #1: Kai Dupke (kdupke) (2017-03-20 17:55:40) I set this to mandatory as we need the slideshow still. How this is implemented I let you decide. #2: Jiri Srain (jsrain) (2017-03-21 06:48:04) (reply to #1) Loading from RPM is a way which allows use to get the slideshow from rpm-md metadata without adding any SUSE-sepcific stuff. #3: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) (2017-04-07 08:40:48Z) I suggest using `extend`, the same approach as we use for password- check or DUD. We even already have an API for that in Installer. RPM can be even part of the install media repository. ${SHORT_PRODUCT}- slideshow would probably make it. #4: Jiri Srain (jsrain) (2017-04-07 12:51:17Z) (reply to #3) This will not work if the slideshow is only abvailable as a package in the repository - this would require putting it to the installer and build it as part of installation images and similar (meta-)packages. (currently, we duplicate such packages on the media) In principle it would work as well, though. We just need to adjust the media layout accordingly then. #5: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) (2017-04-18 13:14:05Z) (reply to #4) OK, then we probably don't want to use `extend`. The fact is, that this script downloads packages from a special place on the media, so we can't really call it a product repository. While the major idea behind seems to be SUSETags removal, we could, in fact, use updated version of slideshow when it's actually downloaded from, e.g., the Update channel (which we use during installation by default anyway). In this case, we'll need a shared API that would download the latest package from installation repository and link the content to the inst- sys. Downloading can be done by libzypp/pkg-bindings, extending by inst- sys, the rest (missing implementation) is the glue between them. #6: Jiri Srain (jsrain) (2017-04-18 13:31:23Z) (reply to #5) Exactly. Just do the same as we do in order to get installation.xml from an extension, the principle is exactly the same. With the benefits you described above. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/323096