Adding Tests for the New "Services" View in the YaST Package Manager¶

We have implemented a new "Services" view in the YaST package manager and we would like to ask for creating openQA tests for it.

See https://fate.suse.com/320573 for more details about the feature.

Notes¶

• The feature will be released in a SLE15 maintenance update, that means for testing in SLE15-SP0 you need a registered system with all maintenance updates applied. In SP1 it will be available directly on the installation media.

• The "Services" view is available only when there is at least one libzypp service available. Services are usually added from a registration server (SCC), in theory users can use their own or 3rd party services but that's probably a rare scenario.

• If no service is available (e.g. unregistered SLES installed from the Packages DVD or in openSUSE Leap) then the menu will not contain the "Services" item at all.

• There is a small difference when using SMT as the registration server instead of SCC. SMT uses a single service for all registered modules/extensions. Which means the feature will not provide much value for the users as in that case they cannot easily filter packages by module or extension. But we cannot do much about it from the YaST POV, that's the SMT design which we cannot change.

• Please note that the displayed service names from SCC contain ugly underscores. This has been reported as bug https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099851 and might be potentially fixed in the future. Which means the needles might need an update in the future.

Screenshots¶

• Qt screenshot:

• Ncurses Screenshot