2008/12/9 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
looks like they offer the same than 1-Click, limited to a single repo, plus "recommends" and "suggests". I _suppose_ that even if just
A pattern is an object that does not gets installed in your system, but can depend, recommend, suggest, obsolete, conflict with anything else so it can be used to trigger complex selections. For the pattern to exist, it has to be in some repo, that is the difference with 1Click, which can live on its own.
So the only difference with a rpm metapackage is that a pattern does not gets installed? I ask because Packman seems to prefer metapackages (they have amarok-packman, but no patterns).
package names are provided, ZYpp will select packages only from the same repo the pattern comes from, true?
Not true, it depends on the package versions, the vendors, repo priorities and your system policies.
So we still have the same problem? A pattern in the Packman repo with:
rpm:requires
I haven't implemented patterns in enhancerepo because I don't have a good idea how to make the user input the data in order to generate the xml, so it is actually worth it, otherwise you can always write the xml by hand and use enhancerepo or modifyrepo to add it to the metadata ;-)
OK, I don't have a good idea neither. But I was more worried about having to modify manually also repomd.xml, checksums included. If enhancerepo/modifyrepo allows to add a manually created patterns file it seems good enough to me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org