Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:19:20PM +0100, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:46:25PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Azerion <azerion@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > Especially the last one I really don't want to see. I want 10.1 out, I really 
> > 
> > So do I ;-)
> > 
> > > do. When I got beta3 I thought that it would be out in a month or so. I was 
> > > on the edge everytime to see new things and see the improvements, so I am not 
> > > lay back about the release. But the problems have to be solved before 10.1 is 
> > > released. Otherwise I really have a -1 for SUSE Linux, despite my 100% 
> > > fan-status.
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to get an overview of where we are with SUSE
> > Linux 10.1.  If you have issues that you consider real showstoppers,
> > please tell them here publically - with bugzilla numbers if possible.
> > I'll read everything but won't have time to comment on it in as much
> > details as appropriate - but will look at them.
> > 
> > The areas that are already on the top of my list and that I evaluate
> > now are in a nutshell:
> > * Handling of patches and packages in libzypp, yast, rug, zmd, zen-updater
> I think most critical here is the online updater. I would be _very_
> glad, if SUSEwatcher (or whatever) would still be there as a fallback
> solution. 
> 
> In my opinion there should also still be a working fallback solution
> for the package-manager without zmd, as

Press F2 in the YAST2 Packager will get you the patch dialogue.

> killall -9 zmd
> killall -9 system-update

Yeah.

> rpm -Uvh *

susewatcher could actually still be used ... where it was before 
a thin wrapper around the "online_update" commandline tool, it could
now be a thin wrapper around "rug".

Just no one has time to do it.

Ciao, Marcus