Next, with each release of SUSE, create the normal SUSE distribution using level 1 stuff, but also create a new "3rd party distribution" containing the union of all level 2 projects, taken as a snapshot at release time. The "3rd party distribution" could be shipped as a separate set of ISO images and would also be hosted in a *single* online repository (called e.g., "openSUSE 10.3 3rdParty").
So you point zypper at e.g. standard SUSE 10.3 repository and 3rd Party 10.3 repository and you get it all.
Not sure if this is the perfect model, but the general goals should be to make clear the trust level of the software you're getting while keeping the number of repositories at a minimum. So if there are basically three trust levels, then at least for the higher trust levels there should be exactly one corresponding repository.
Yes, it sounds good enough model for me. As long as this is one-stop-shop, that can be downloaded counted as 1 repo and burned on DVD. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org