Testing for provided features.

Author

Michael Andres ma@su.nosp@m.se.d.nosp@m.e

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Introduction

The libzypp rpm package will indicate the presence of certain features by using special Provides:

  # Provides:     libzypp(FEATURE) = FEATURE_VERSION
  Provides:       libzypp(code10) = 0

Packages requiring a feature may use the corresponding Requires: in their .spec file.

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Features

plugin

version 0

General ability to provide and handle plugins.

version 0.1

Bugfix: don't reject header values containing a ':'.

plugin:commit

Commit plugin

version 0

Basic plugin indicating start and end of commit.

version 1

Added COMMITBEGIN/COMMITEND.

plugin:services

Service plugins

version 0

Provide a client a list of repositories.

version 1

Support multiple repo baseurls in plugin services.

plugin:system

System plugin

version 0

Plugin executed when system content change is detected (by now SUSE Manager/spacewalk only).

version 1

Plugin executed when system content change is detected (all installed plugins).

plugin:urlresolver

Url Resolver plugins

version 0

Convert urls of scheme "plugin" into a supported scheme.

repovarexpand

Repository Variables

version 0

Also support braced variables, shell like default and alternate values.