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Support for exposing /var/lib/zypp/AutoInstalled #89

Open alexjp opened 8 years ago

alexjp commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Support for exposing /var/lib/zypp/AutoInstalled functionality for marking packages as AutoInstalled or Explicit.

I was thinking of something like:

zypper se --autoinstalled ( list packages that were autoinstalled and present on /var/lib/zypp/AutoInstalled )
zypper se --explicit ( list packages installed on system but no on autoinstalled file )

zypper mark --autoinstalled "packages" ( mark, add packages to autoinstalled file )
zypper mark --explicit "packages" ( mark, remove packages from autoinstalled file )

zypper rm --unneeded ( remove packages not needed on autoinstalled file ).

I have been using these scripts to manage autoinstalled packages: https://github.com/alexjp/zypper_autopackages

zypper_autoinstalled.sh: creates a full autoinstalled file from packages not present in a world file zypper_autoremove.sh: remove all packages not needed by packages not in autoinstalled zypper_explicit_installed.sh: creates the world file: all packages installed but no in autoinstalled

With these scripts, I can have a common world file with favorite packages, and manage those across diferent machines. With zypper_autoremove.sh, I can have the peace of mind that i can install all i want, if later is not in the world file, it can be cleaned and removed from system. ( very helpfull when installing and testing a new desktop environment or group of packages ).

Thanks!

mlandres commented 8 years ago

Indeed a nice feature.

mlandres commented 8 years ago

The idea of a world file with favorite packages is a bit related to /etc/zypp/systemCheck.

The idea was to be able to provide a black/white-list of packages required/forbidden on a system. Each and every solver run has the systemCheck rules enabled. It's the reason why you can hardly zypper rm glibc. Custom settings can be defined as file in /etc/zypp/systemCheck.d.

alexjp commented 8 years ago

Yes, i guess i was doing my own custom systemCheck.d. I didnt knew about systemCheck file. The systemCheck.d folder is a nice touch ( example for kde packages, gnome packages, sys packages ).

Seems opensuse and zypper has all the infrastructure to allow this features. Nice!

ykurlaev commented 3 years ago

Is PR #165 related to this issue? Is there any work being done on it currently?

Xplosm commented 2 years ago

Is PR #165 related to this issue? Is there any work being done on it currently?

Yes, I believe so. And no. It seems no work has been done in either PR.