[packagekit] Triggering EULA dialog?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Feb 5 08:35:38 PST 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
<dmacvicar at suse.de> wrote:
> For SUSE systems ZYpp backend triggers the eula when a package which has
> an eula metadata is installed. For media repositories, this is the +Eul
> -Eul block in $descrdir/packages.gz, for rpm-md repositories, it is a
> primary.xml extension tag, called "eula" which we associate with
> primary.xml in a file called susedata.xml.
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Standards/Rpm_Metadata#SUSE_primary_data_.28susedata.xml.29.2C_extensions_to_primary.xml

Egads.  You mean it's not even inside the package?
If somebody takes the .rpm elsewhere, and installs it,
the EULA won't be displayed?
That's surprising.
- Dan



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