some patches for yast2 channels

[Christoph Thiel]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:

> >> Problem is: it modifies download URLs like e.g. 
> >> http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.0 into 
> >> http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1
> > 
> > No, it doesn't -- you haven't used the latests patch. That one will 
> > just do something, if the latests digit is 1 and replace it with the 
> > media no that the package is on (due to package metadata). So it won't 
> > even break http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1!
> 
> Right, the previous patch did the following:
>   if u[len(u)-1:].isdigit():
> and now it does
>   if u[len(u)-1:] == '1':
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to only do that funky stuff when the channel is
> marked as removable ?
> 
> u = self._loader._baseurl.rstrip("/");
> if u[len(u)-1:] == '1':
>    u = u.rstrip("1234567890")
>    u += self._info.get("media")
> 
> Why not
>    u = u.rstrip("1")
> ?

Yeah, right ;) Let's change that.


> Hm, well.. still... so basically, it works when it's /10.1 at the end 
> because media is always set to "1" on internet repositories so you're 
> just r-stripping "1" and then appending "1" ?

Exactly -- but it will also work for installation sources that consist of 
loopback-mounted CDs pointing to someurl/CD1 someurl/CD2 etc.


Regards,
	Christoph