Standards

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openSUSE standards

This page links to the standards and specifications used in the openSUSE Community.

If you want to help defining, proposing or documenting an existing standard, please see documenting standards for openSUSE page.

Active standards

Software Management

• Software Repositories
  • Libzypp Store Metadata of known repositories and information about installed non-package items.
  • rpm XML metadata repository format (a.k.a YUM metadata)
  • YaST2 Repository Metadata Format (a.k.a SUSE tags)
  • Repository Information File (a.k.a .repo files)
  • Novell Update Service (a.k.a NU)
• Communication
  • Updates status XML description (used by update applets to communicate with zypp resolver)

Systems Management

• Remote management
  • Systems management Everything about systems management

Proposed standards

Software Management

• One click installation of packages

Needed standards and Extensions

• Repo-Linking http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2006-10/msg00136.html ( use case might be solved by the one click install proposal )