Repose/Repoq is a pair of tools for querying and manipulation of repositories in SUSE QA Maintenance reference machines.

Repose allows for manipulation of repositories in refhosts requiring only a running sshd and zypper installed on them.

#=============#              #=============#
#   refhost   #  1. query    #   repose    #
#     <-------------------------------+    #
#     |       #              #      #=============#
#     |       #  2. product info    #      "      #
#     +------------------------------->  repoq    #
#             #              #      # |   or      #
#             #  3. zypper commands # |  sumaxy   #
#     <-------------------------------+    "      #
#             #              #      #=============#
#=============#              #=============#

Repoq maps strings like sle-sdk:12.1:x86_64 to the corresponding repository URLs, or to suitable zypper addrepo (zypper removerepo) commands. Repoq performs this mapping based on information collected from a file it downloads from a configured location.

Repose reports or modifies the package repositories in one or more refhosts based on installed products (/etc/products.d/), repository configuration (/etc/zypp/repos.d), and user input; commands are sent via ssh. Repose uses Repoq and sumaxy internally.