On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 4/23/2010 at 03:43 AM, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote: >> At >> least with YaST such intelligence is hidden in some proprietary >> catalog that will walk the chain of requirements. > > Excuse me? What's proprietary about it? >
There's a catalog that helps YaST find which package is needed to satisfy a certain dependency. Where Yum and Apt build that catalog by indexing the packages in your repository, my understanding is that YaST ships such a table with the distribution and does not contain packages that are not part of your distribution. Worse, dependencies in the SuSE RPM packages used to be partial because the YaST catalog would pull in the required packages anyway. When I looked at this stuff, SuSE did not ship the tools to produce such a catalog to include your own packages. When things changed, I stand corrected with pleasure. To take the placebo package for Oracle a step further, I suggested to have it included in the SUSE build process so that it ships with the distribution and customers can use YaST to install the placebo (and its dependecies that come from the distribution again). Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
