>>> On 8/14/2018 at 08:39 AM, John Arwe <[email protected]> wrote:
> SLES 11 and 12 contained a media.1/build file on each DVD, that
> contained a string like (SLES 12 example)
> SLE-12-SP2-Server-DVD-s390x-Build2192. We have some code that parses
> that value to figure out which distro, version, service pack, and
> architecture the DVD corresponds to.
>
> On the SLES 15 DVDs, there is no such file. media.1/media appears to
> have the corresponding content, i.e.
>
> /nfs/repo/SLE-15-SP0-pkgs/dvd1 # cat media.1/media
> SUSE - SLE-15-Packages-s390x-Build668.1-Media1.iso
> SLE-15-Packages-s390x-Build668.1-Media1.iso
> 1
>
> While media.1/media did exist on SLES 12 DVDs, the content was much
> different:
> cat /nfs/repo/SLE-12-SP2/media.1/media
> SUSE
> 20161031195753
> 2
>
> Before I write code to depend on this, I wanted to make sure that
> media.1/media is the best way to get the information we're after,
> programatically, with SLES 15. I see no mention of this change on the
> release notes page at
> https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15/
This file is not really an API, so I would hesitate to say this is the "best
way." For the same reason I'm not really surprised the change wasn't mentioned
in the release notes.
> It would not be completely surprising if, along with the os-release
> file, there was a similar "parser friendly" format on the DVDs that I
> have not found yet.
Also on the DVD, starting with SLES15, is /repodata/repomd.xml. Again, I don't
believe this to be a _documented_ interface, but it is used by zypper, so I
wouldn't expect really radical changes to it in the future. Among various
other things in there, I see this:
<tags>
<repo>obsproduct://build.suse.de/SUSE:SLE-15:GA/SLES/15/DVD/s390x</repo>
</tags>
You should probably talk to our Partner team about stuff like this. It's their
job to make your life easier.
Mark Post
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