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Allow to specify package version

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, python, shell

Research direction

Start by locating where the extension defines and invokes the shown zypper update and security-patch commands. Trace how package selections are supplied, then define how a customer-provided version reaches the command and verify that the resulting installation pins the requested version.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My customers are not able to specify a version. This is problematic as they roll patches out to lower environments first, and sometimes (often times) by the time they get to prod, the version pushed by this agent will be different than what was tested in lower environments.

Describe the solution you'd like
Allow the customer to specify an image version. In zypper, you can do:
zypper install <package_name>=
But the extension doesn't expose the version:
# Install update
self.single_package_upgrade_cmd = 'sudo zypper --non-interactive update '
self.zypper_install_security_patches = 'sudo zypper --non-interactive patch --category security'

Describe alternatives you've considered
The customer is working to accelerate their patching cycle, but no workaround exists with the extension itself that I am aware of.

Dominant language
Python
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12
Forks
20
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Merged PRs (30d)
2

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