YaST Pkg Bindings-openSUSE 10.3

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Here is an overview of changes in Pkg Bindings in openSUSE 10.3 release (yast2-pkg-bindings-2.15.*):

Functions Divided into More Parts

Note: The old functions are still present for backward compatibility.

• Pkg::SetLocale() and Pkg::GetLocale() were split into Pkg::Set/GetTextLocale(), Pkg::Set/GetPackageLocale() to set the communication language (error messages, callbacks...) and the language packages independently
• Pkg::SourceCreate() — was split into Pkg::RepositoryAdd(), Pkg::RepositoryScan() and Pkg::RepositoryProbe() so adding a repository can be more fine-tuned

New Functions

• Pkg::PkgDU() — computes disk usage of the package using the current partitioning
• Pkg::IsAnyResolvable() — is there any resolvable in the required state (selected, installed...)? (Pkg::PkgAnyToInstall() and Pkg::PkgAnyToDelete() are obsoleted by this function.)
• Pkg::PkgAvailable(), Pkg::PkgInstalled() — use package names for searching (Pkg::IsAvailable(), Pkg::IsProvided() use Provides property of packages)
• Pkg::SourceProvideDirectory() — optional and/or recursive directory download from a repository, this is a generic call which obsoletes Pkg::SourceProvideDir()

Enhanced/Changed Functions

• Pkg::PkgUpdateAll() — new options "silent_downgrades" and "keep_installed_patches" for solver during update
• Pkg::SourceEditSet/Get() can retrieve and set alias of a source
• Pkg::SourceMediaData() — dropped "media_id" and "media_vendor" tags from the result map, requires loaded resolvables in the pool to get the number of media
• Pkg::ResolvableProperties() — returns also license with it's status for the required resolvable and type of the product (base vs. addon)
• Pkg::LastError() — in addition to the error message there is also the history of exceptions in the result, the result is more detailed
• Pkg::PkgMediaNames() — returns repository names instead of product names