On Thursday 18 December 2008 17:30:28 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 12/18/2008 at 5:10 PM, "Benji Weber" <benji@opensuse.org> wrote:
2008/12/18 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de>:
Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
Frankly, I fail to see difference to the add-on product concept, which is basically a repository with addiotional information.
Technically yes.
But technically everything is the same. - Wav files are just compressed mp3s - Alien movie is just Jaws on a Spaceship
Innovation is usually the small final step/small difference that makes people use it in a different way.
I'm also not sure that add on products would currently allow us to create distribution independent bundles, which is something that would be nice.
That would basically require building against an LSB base project. I think that's the only way this CAN be achieved. But then the /sbin/yast2 part of the suggested OSI is not suitable. Latest at this stage you end up not being able to use any package manager (well, wrong. There is PackageKit).
You could also try to detect an appropriate package manager, or simply call osi_install /tmp/$TARGET_NAME/root/installer.ymp and leave it to the admin/distributor to provide an appropriate implementation of it. Or without osi_install fall back to 'rpm -Uvh' hoping the dependencies are resolved. -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres YaST Development ma@novell.com SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org