Standards/YaST2 Repository Metadata/descrdir

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• Patterns

.pat files

• Packages

packages file
packages.DU file
packages.<lang> file

They are all connected via the content file. It defines a DESCRDIR which contains patterns, selections, and packages files.

In order to access patterns and selections, their filenames must be listed in <DESCRDIR>/patterns resp. <DESCRDIR>/selections

This is required since a wildcard match (i.e. <DESCRDIR>/*.pat is not supported with every transport; there is not standard way to do ls via http)