Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (206 mails)

[Malcolm <malcolm_lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:01:18 +0100
"Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday 18 February 2011, 18:34:48 Chris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 18.02.2011 18:26, schrieb Hans-Peter Jansen:
> > > It would have been nice to a least send out a warning, probably on
> > > a low traffic list like announce, that all 11.1 dependent targets
> > > and its packages are going to be killed of. That way, I would have
> > > been able to prepare a local mirror.
> >
> > I don't think that "packages" have been deleted. perhaps the
> > repository they have been build against.
> > If you need to have them build again, there is a possibility to use
> > "DISCONTINUED:openSUSE:11.1"
>
> No, not the packages. At least, I didn't notice. I'm pretty fed up,
> as I worked heavily on a project the last weeks, and when it come to 
> rollout, I had to notice, that almost all repos, that I rely on, are 
> gone. External and my own. I had boat loads of builds to targets like:
>
> KDE_Distro_Stable_openSUSE_11.1, 
> KDE_Distro_Factory_openSUSE_11.1
>
> that all vanished. Or builds against the openSUSE_11.1 version of 
> devel:language:python, that are all gone. Targets _and_ repos.
> Deleted.
>
> And I was so silly to promote this service around the world. Oh, well.
>
> > > I thought, that fascist operators from hell would had been an
> > > issue of the past. I failed.
> >
> > Hey, that is not "new" that from time to time a dist gets
> > "DISCONTINUED" ;)
>
> Sure, but this time it hurts :-(..
>
> Pete
Hi
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00005.html
http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime#Discontinued_distributions

Why not create your own instance locally of obs to build and publish,
then you won't have this issue?

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