- allow to force the storage of project meta data (to ignore depending repositories for example)

NEWS

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   - add force option to accept requests in review state.
   - add "maintenancerequest" command to request a maintenance incident from maintenance team
   - add "releaserequest" command run a maintenance update release process (for maintenance team only)
+  - allow to force the storage of project meta data (to ignore depending repositories for example)
 
 0.130
   - new "revert" command to restore the original working copy file (without

osc/commandline.py

@@ -492,6 +492,8 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
                         help='include defined attribute defaults')
     @cmdln.option('--attribute-project', action='store_true',
                         help='include project values, if missing in packages ')
+    @cmdln.option('-f', '--force', action='store_true',
+                        help='force the save operation, allows to ignores some errors like depending repositories. For prj meta only.')
     @cmdln.option('-F', '--file', metavar='FILE',
                         help='read metadata from FILE, instead of opening an editor. '
                         '\'-\' denotes standard input. ')
@@ -645,6 +647,7 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
             if cmd == 'prj':
                 edit_meta(metatype='prj',
                           edit=True,
+                          force=opts.force,
                           path_args=quote_plus(project),
                           apiurl=apiurl,
                           template_args=({
@@ -707,6 +710,7 @@ class Osc(cmdln.Cmdln):
                 edit_meta(metatype='prj',
                           data=f,
                           edit=opts.edit,
+                          force=opts.force,
                           apiurl=apiurl,
                           path_args=quote_plus(project))
             elif cmd == 'pkg':

osc/core.py

@@ -3214,7 +3214,7 @@ def meta_exists(metatype,
             raise e
     return data
 
-def make_meta_url(metatype, path_args=None, apiurl=None):
+def make_meta_url(metatype, path_args=None, apiurl=None, force=False):
     global metatypes
 
     if not apiurl:
@@ -3226,7 +3226,11 @@ def make_meta_url(metatype, path_args=None, apiurl=None):
     if path_args:
         path = path % path_args
 
-    return makeurl(apiurl, [path])
+    query = {}
+    if force:
+        query = { 'force': '1' }
+
+    return makeurl(apiurl, [path], query)
 
 
 def edit_meta(metatype,
@@ -3234,6 +3238,7 @@ def edit_meta(metatype,
               data=None,
               template_args=None,
               edit=False,
+              force=False,
               change_is_required=False,
               apiurl=None):
 
@@ -3251,7 +3256,7 @@ def edit_meta(metatype,
     if edit:
         change_is_required = True
 
-    url = make_meta_url(metatype, path_args, apiurl)
+    url = make_meta_url(metatype, path_args, apiurl, force)
     f=metafile(url, data, change_is_required, metatypes[metatype]['file_ext'])
 
     if edit: