On Thursday 19 November 2015 12.20:03 Sebastian M. Ernst wrote:

Hi all,

I am currently running openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 on a few machines and planning to keep it running with Evergreen support. Thanks a lot for this excellent project.

When past releases of openSUSE reached their official EOL, I noticed that a lot of valuable openSUSE build service repositories for those releases went offline pretty quickly without even individual mirrors keeping a copy of them. I'd like to avoid running into problems (like being unable to find a desired package when needed) this time, so I am cloning some build service repositories I am frequently using to one of my machines. This raises two questions for me.

Would it be possible to keep copies of the latest ("final") versions of the contents of build service repositories for openSUSE 13.1 at least on one mirror before they disappear at download.opensuse.org? it is normally always possible to extract the package at a certain level from obs to make it revival. But I don't think the binaries are kept.

I guess there 2 solutions, keep an rsync copy without --delete with the consequence of it. The others way would be to have a local obs, branch all the package you need and build publish them for 13.1. Now the third solution, was applied for 11.4 is to have a Evergreen target (or simply keep 13.1 as a build publish target) on repository. As this depend of the reposotiry maintainer decision, and also to save build power of obs.... Getting your needed package branched inside your own repo, could help perhap but for how long... Owning an obs instance is the most secured in long term. All depends ....

Using an x86_64 version of openSUSE, do I need to clone the "x86_64" *and* the "i586"/"i686" folders of every repository or is sufficient to just clone / keep copies of the "x86_64" folders? I am not sure whether packages in "x86_64" folders might have any dependencies to packages found in "i586"/"i686" folders.

You should be able to keep only noarch, x86_64 and repodata folder no i586 should be necessary, when 32bits are expected normally they have a -32bit in x86_64 repository. But beware some non open crap (skype etc) need i586 lib and bin... So depending of what you want to run, both could be mandatory.

Best regards, Sebastian

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