Pattern Metadata YaST
Pattern (.pat) files
Attributes of Patterns
- Name, Version, Release, Architecture
The architecture restricts the pattern to systems supporting this architecture but no better architecture. - Summary, Description
A short and a long user-readable explanation - Group
A group (or category) this pattern belongs to. Used when displaying patterns in a tree-like widget to the user. - Sort oder
How to order the presentation of multiple pattern within the same group - Requires, Provides, Obsoletes, Conflicts, Recommends, Suggests, ...
Targetting other patterns or packages.
Syntax of pattern files
Pattern files are very similar to Selections but have a different file name extension .pat (instead of .sel) They also don't have language specific information.
| Keyword | Value | Comment |
| =Ver: | Syntax version | Minimal parser version needed to parse this file. Should be set to 5.0 for Code10 |
| =Pat: | name version release architecture | All four values are mandatory |
| =Sum: | summary | one line label in default language |
| =Sum.lang: | summary | one line language specific label |
| +Des: -Des: |
description | Multi line description in default language |
| +Des.lang: -Des.lang: |
description | Multi line description, language specific |
| =Cat: | category | one line user-visible category grouping different patterns (in default language) |
| =Cat.lang: | summary | one line language specific category |
| =Ico: | icon | icon name if no icon name is specified, the pattern name will be used instead (with blanks in the name replaced by underscores "_") ".png" will be appended, if there is no ".png" or ".jpg" extension if no path is specified, icons are looked up in the theme icon path (first /usr/share/YaST2/theme/current/icons/32x32/apps/, then /usr/share/YaST2/theme/current/icons/48x48/apps/) relative paths are assumed to be relative to the theme path (/usr/share/YaST2/theme/current/) absolute paths are allowed, too |
| =Vis: | visibility | visibility of selection (for user interface) |
| =Ord: | ordering | order of selection (for user interface) This three-digit-integer-value defines the order of the selection when listing multiple patterns in the user interface |
| +Req: -Req: |
pattern | patterns required for installation |
| +Prv: -Prv: |
pattern | patterns provided |
| +Con: -Con: |
pattern | patterns conflicting |
| +Obs: -Obs: |
pattern | patterns obsoleted |
| +Rec: -Rec: |
pattern | recommended patterns |
| +Sup: -Sup: |
pattern | supplemented patterns |
| +Sug: -Sug: |
pattern | suggested patterns |
| +Prq: -Prq: |
packages list | list of required (must) packages to install (see below) |
| +Prc: -Prc: |
packages list | list of recommended (should) packages to install |
| +Psg: -Psg: |
packages list | list of suggested (may) packages to install |
| +Fre: -Fre: |
pattern | freshened patterns |