Greg Freemyer composed on 2015-07-10 14:42 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
My take on Tumbleweed is that it's mostly a superficial rename of factory, designed to make the name better reflect its purpose.
I very much disagree with your simplification.
I was going by my recollection of http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2014-10/msg00000.html
In June factory and Tumbleweed significantly diverged due to factory having GCC 5 and Tumbleweed still being back a version.
I guess my consciousness got behind. Last I remember (from last fall), tumbleweed was not a separate line item on http://download.opensuse.org/ and baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss and baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss were said to be equivalent for at least the next 6 months, and it's now been more than 6 months.
I gather you've worked in formal IT areas.
When I consulted at Ford all important projects had to have both a QA server and production server.
Prior to releasing any new code (or system config change) it had to first be rolled to the QA server and from then after testing it was rolled from the QA server to the production server.
95% of the time the code on the QA server was identical to the production server, but none the less we all knew it could on occasion get very much ahead of where the production server was.
Factory is the QA Server equivalent. It is where software packages go for preliminary (automated) testing. It is only after some level of testing that the get rolled out to Tumbleweed.
The GCC 5 package took 3 weeks or so to get through autoQA so there was a significant divergence of factory and tumbleweed during that time.
I guess if I want to continue using Factory like it was prior to creation of openSUSE's rolling release I need to switch back to baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org