On 07/01/10 07:58, Daniel Fuhrmann wrote:
Am Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:56:10 schrieb Karsten König:
Am Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2010 17:32:06 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
On Tuesday 05 of January 2010, Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 5. januar 2010 17:07:09 skrev Tony:
just wondering what is the difference between the following kde4 repo's ?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/ op en SU SE_11.1/
vs
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.1/
The latter is pretty pointless after it has been decided to ship 4.3.4 as an official update to 11.2 - and therefore putting it in STABLE.
So just use the first one. The KDE:/43/ repo should be killed in the near future.
Just to understand: Isn't it so, that the stable repo will be fix? and the kde4.3 branch will get furthermore fixes from upstream which could go into kde43 like it was the last time? So if you want a "up to date" 4.3.4 the 43 repo should stay alive?
Daniel
:-D I gather from this that after reading that lengthy and detailed explanation by Tejas you have been left totally confused or possibly even more confused than before? :-) You are not alone. On 5 Dec 2009, Will Stephenson wrote this: QUOTE The KDE and maintenance teams are taking the unprecedented step of a point release update to KDE SC 4.3.4 in our 'STABLE' repository and from then as an online update to 11.2. Normally we don't do version updates in online updates, preferring to backport patches to the released version. I'll be straight with you; the impetus for doing this comes from putting 4.3.4 on an enterprise product and we don't want to maintain two 4.3 codebases, but we're confident that this is a good thing for openSUSE users, because: - 4.3.4 has 2 months' more upstream bugfixing in it, compared to 4.3.1. This includes a major Plasma performance bug fix. - 4.3.4 is the final planned release in the KDE 4.3 series and will therefore have the longest shelf life. It will be easier to apply future fixes from the KDE 4.3 branch to 4.3.4 packages than to 4.3.1 packages. - having 4.3.4 on an enterprise product gives us additional reasons (customers' money!) to fix bugs in it, benefitting openSUSE users too. - We are aware that any version update has the potential to include regressions, but: - 4.3.4 is a point release with only bugfixes and translation updates - we've seen a lot of use of the KDE:43 repo from 11.2 users without a lot more bugs - other distributions have already shipped 4.3.2 and are going to push point releases as online updates as well We have consulted the openSUSE maintenance team, who were in favour of this move. The online update will take place after a period of testing 4.3.4 on 11.2 in KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop. The sole drawback to this that we're aware of is that this will be a large online update download; we hope you will agree the benefits will be worth it. Season's greetings! Will UNQUOTE On the 17 Dec I asked what the status of this situation was. On 3 Jan 2010, Dirk Mueller answered with: QUOTE There are a few regressions to fix before teh 11.2 update will be started. so work in progress. Greetings, Dirk UNQUOTE Does this provide you with the answer? BC -- Take the bull by the tail and look the facts in the face. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org