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The content file contains information about the product. It is used to create an internal product object used in dependency resolution.

See here for a full description of its syntax.

Bug 223406 covers important aspects of the product semantics and defines the following rules starting with openSUSE 10.2 on:

• PRODUCT will also include the distribution, e.g. openSUSE-DVD9
• VERSION will be 10.2-0 (release will be increased if 10.2 gets remastered)
• DISTPRODUCT will not be touched (for suse_register, to be fixed properly in 10.3)
• PROVIDES product:openSUSE = 10.2 will be added to satisfy generic product dependencies (e.g. addon/extra repositories should require "product:openSUSE = 10.2")
• OBSOLETES will be added

Blanks in the product name will be converted to underscores.

Dependencies

A notable change compared to Code 9 is the possibility to specify a complete set of dependencies for a product.

The content may contain the following keys

• REQUIRES, PREREQUIRES, PROVIDES, CONFLICTS, OBSOLETES, RECOMMENDS, SUGGESTS, SUPPLEMENTS, ENHANCES

All of them can now contain a (space separated) list of resolvables optionally followed by version-release constraints.

Examples (requires)

Any package named suse-release: REQUIRES suse-release

A package named suse-release with version 10.0, release 42: REQUIRES suse-release == 10.0-42

A package named sles-release with version 10, release 1 and the pattern sles-base greater or equal to version 10, release 7:
REQUIRES sles-release == 10-1 pattern:sles-base >= 10.7

SHORTLABEL

This is a short label (max 12 characters) used by some bootloaders with restriction on the length of a label.