Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (542 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Joseph M. Gaffney" <CuCullin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:06, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Frank-Michael Fischer <fmfischer@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> > Does anyone have an idea, why my installation of the opensuse-factory
>> > via FTP fails both ways, when going via internet or from my local rsync
>> > mirror? When going local FTP, installation complains there are no
>> > packages groups available after choosing Gnome or KDE. When going
>> > internet the installation just hangs at "Software Auswahl" without
>> > complaining.
>>
>> Wait for the next sync tomorrow, we're currently integrating our new
>> packagemanager,
>>
>> Andreas
>
> I thought Friday was the new date?

Factory is synced out more often..

> As an update to my comment made in the status meeting, yum does not handle 
> srpm's.  I still believe, not for this version for obvious reasons, that 
> being able to handle srpm's through the package manager is a Very Good Thing 
> (TM).  Perhaps this can go onto a wishlist for the future... I'll try and put 
> down a good idea of what I think would work, why, etc, and post up a feature 
> request once I can.

Yes, please add it to the wishlist,

Andreas
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