On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:07:17PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Tue, Jun 11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
But supermin is supposed to ignore packages that don't exist in the distro. This is a bug in supermin or the zypp plugin for supermin.
It looks like zypper has no "ignore unknown packages/provides" flag. zypper .. install $pkg is called with an unknown package then zypper will just abort because it expects valid input.
Maybe there should be some code which iterates over "names" and lets zypper check for every single pkg and drop the ones which it can not resolve. Later the smaller "names" list can be passed to zypper.
Are other plugins more forgiving in this?
Yes. For example, the yum/RPM plugin does effectively this: #!/usr/bin/python import yum import yum.misc import sys yb = yum.YumBase () yb.setCacheDir () patterns = ["bash", "notarealpackage"] pkgs = yb.pkgSack.returnPackages (patterns=patterns, repoid=0) for pkg in pkgs: print pkg ... which prints (after ages, for yum is very slow): bash-4.2.39-3.fc18.x86_64 bash-4.2.45-1.fc18.x86_64 This is a feature of supermin, because it lets you have package lists that don't need to be heavily conditionalized based on the precise version of a distro, especially when packages are often being renamed (like util-linux -> util-linux-ng and back again). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top