Thanks, it works as detailed below now. Anas
On 29/07/2013 03:38, "Michael Andres" <m...@suse.de> wrote: >On Friday 26 July 2013 20:35:09 Nashif, Anas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There seem to be a hard dependency between product definition and the >> <dist>-release package, when the release-package is updated, the >>product is >> being removed: >> >> Reading installed packages... >> Computing distribution upgrade... >> >> The following product is going to be REMOVED: >> XXXX >> >> >> Is the release package a special package that can't be updated or am I >> missing something here? > >Expected is a 1-1 releation between a product (.prod file in >/etc/products.d/) >and it's release package (actually the package containing the .prod file). > >As the .prod file is included in a package, the repo metadata need to >contain >an abstract of the product metadata (at lest everything required to >properly >resolve the product). > >As Jiri mentioned, these data are shipped in eiter repodata/products.xml >(rpmmd repo format) or in the content file (suse repo). > >For each product version in the repo, its coresponding -release package >is >found by looking for the package providing: > > Provides: product() > Provides: product(<PRODUCTNAME>) = <PRODUCTVERSION>-<PRODUCTRELEASE> > ><PRODUCTNAME>, <PRODUCTVERSION> and <PRODUCTRELEASE> in the package >provides >and in the repos product metadata must match the products data stored in >the .prod file included in the release package. > > >Without product metadata or the linking Provides: the resolver does not >see >that the product is continued when the -release package is updated. > > >-- > >cu, > Michael Andres > >+------------------------------------------------------------------+ >Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 >+------------------------------------------------------------------+ >Michael Andres SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development, m...@suse.de >GF:Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer, HRB16746(AG Nürnberg) >Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 >+------------------------------------------------------------------+ >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscr...@opensuse.org >To contact the owner, e-mail: zypp-devel+ow...@opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: zypp-devel+ow...@opensuse.org
