February 2010 - openSUSE Software Management

[softwaremgmt] Autoenable-feature for services
by J. Daniel Schmidt 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, I'd like to discuss a new feature for (NU) Services. A service can contain multiple repos and they may change over time. All these changes are automatically apllied to the system during a refresh of the service. But one thing is missing IMHO. All new repos always remain disabled and have to be enabled manually. In the registration process we therefore enable each repo one by one. The server has no way to tell the client what repos should be enabled in his opinion. And the client has no possibility to change the policy to always enable repos in services. I'd recommend to add a new property to the repo definition in the repoindex.xml: enable="1". Repos tagged like this should be enabled (of course only in the opinion of the server). When a service gets added on a client the service should get a new parameter: autoenable=<value> in its service file (zypper needs to support it). The value might be one of: all = automatically enable all repos that the server has remote = automatically enable all repos that are tagged with enable="1" none = no automatic enabling - default (if missing), to be backward compatible By this, the authority still remains on the client. The client can decide what policy he wants to use. And the change of the policy is per service, so changing the policy for one service does not change for all services. This would be a nice feature for services as you could add one service that you trust (maybe you administer it yourself) and then forget about it, as the repos will always adapt automatically. I had short conversations with Duncan MacVicar and Marcus Meissner about this topic today but now want to open it for a discussion. What do you think? Are there better ways to do this? Are there side-effects or security issues? Ciao, Daniel -- J. Daniel Schmidt <jdsn(a)suse.de> SUSE Linux Products GmbH Research & Development Maxfeldstr. 5 GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) D-90409 Nürnberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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[softwaremgmt] suseinfo.xml, is it used?
by Cristian Morales Vega 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Is http://en.opensuse.org/Standards/RPM_metadata#SUSE_repository_info_.28susei… really used? Neither the 11.2 OSS repo nor the OBS repos provide it. So, not sure if the package management tools take it into account. I think it would be really useful that the OBS repos provide that "distro" tag. That would avoid yet another post in the forums from an user that confused http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS… with http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS…. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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[softwaremgmt] enhancerepo 0.4.1 released
by Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

You can find the packages in my [home project][3]. # Changes * Gemified. It is now available as a ruby gem. The rpm package is now therefore rubygem-enhancerepo * Changed command line option parsing: for multiple items in an option, don't use commas anymore: --generate-update pkg1,pkg2 becomes --generate-update pkg1 pkg2 * Support for product metadata generation from release packages. Enhancerepo will scan *-release rpm packages and insert product.xml information in the metadata. * Bugfixes for delta and updates generation * Improved output # Thanks This release was possible thanks to contributions and testing from Michael Calmer and Jordi Massaguer Pla # Next release A 0.4.2 release will follow shortly, because 0.4.1 was queued from some time already. At least 2 features are planned for 0.4.2/0.4.3 * Merge splitting of any metadata patch from Jordi Massaguer Pla * Merge pattern conversion patch from Michael Calmer # About Enhancerepo [Enhancerepo][1] is a tool to edit and index rpm-md (a.k.a yum) software repositories. It is developed in [gitorious][2]. ## Main features: * Reindex metadata * Generate delta rpms from different package versions, and the corresponding metadata * Generate updates (patches) metadata from different package versions * Insert keywords and other properties * Create product descriptions from -release packages [1]: http://en.opensuse.org/Enhancerepo [2]: http://www.gitorious.org/opensuse/enhancerepo [3]: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dmacvicar/ -- Duncan Mac-Vicar P. - Novell® Making IT Work As One™ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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