Hello, @packman team: can you please answer the question at the end of this mail?
Am Freitag, 2. März 2012 schrieb Thomas Schmidt: > On 01.03.2012 18:28, Christian Boltz wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2012 schrieb Thomas Schmidt: > >> The challenge is to make available the matrix of different OS > >> versions, repositories and package versions in a clear way while > >> making it easy for the standard user to get the latest stable > >> version for his OS without getting confused. > > > > AFAIK One Click Install supports ymp files that choose the > > distribution automatically (packman uses such files IIRC). > > > > Using such a multi-distribution ymp file for the big "Direct > > Install" button would make things easier and less error-prone for > > the average user. > > That would be really cool and avoid some wrong downloads i think. > I'm not sure how we can detect on which os version the client is > anyway (in the browser). You can't detect it in the browser. Well, maybe you can do some guessing based on the "user agent" - but that's nothing I would rely on. And to make it even more interesting, it's easy to change what a browser can send in its "user agent" string. If you want something that works in the browser, then add a "remember my distribution" checkbox on the search page that sets a long-living cookie. BTW: The multi-distribution ymp files contain repo urls for various distributions, and YaST OneClickInstall then chooses the right one. > At the moment the ymp is directly created by > the obs at an url like this: > https://api.opensuse.org//published/openSUSE:12.1/standard/kernel-def > ault?view=ymp > > We would need someone to extend the obs to create those multi-os ymps. Shouldn't be too hard for the OBS team ;-) > It would also be interesting to know how packman creates those. That's the reason why I'm CC'ing the packman mailinglist ;-) @packman team: can someone please give a short description how the packman multi-distribution ymp files are created? Regards, Christian Boltz -- Aren't most of SUSE-employed community members part of the Research&Destroy department? [Sascha Peilicke in opensuse-project] _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
