[packman] Unify vendors for libzypp
Pascal Bleser
pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Tue Jul 8 00:43:39 CEST 2008
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Christian Morales Vega wrote:
| Not sure about the best way to archieve this. But at least one time a
| package from Packman changed the vendor string in a 11.0 update.
| The thing is, for libzypp to inform about updates there can't be a vendor
| change. So I needed to create a /etc/zypp/vendors.d/packman file with:
| "[main]
|
| vendors=http://packman.links2linux.de,packman.links2linux.de,Packman"
| (I did a quick look at libzypp source code for this, don't ask me
where the
| file format is explained).
|
| Should a package be created with this file? There exists some way to make
| users install it?
And what happens when that file exists ?
Does zypp also inform about updates that require a vendor change to
Packman ?
(thanks for researching this btw ;))
cheers
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