Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Andreas Hanke <andreas.hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

S Glasoe schrieb:
> Felix is right about the directory tree not making sense. The updates are 
> not in the same path as the distribution. Why? Consistency throughout would 
> be greatly appreciated. Please consider that having the /update 
> and /distribution and the additional repositories such as 
> software.opensuse.org/download/KDE: in a logical, easy to follow order 
> would make openSUSE a lot easier to use.
> 
> For example:
> whatever.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/xx.y
> whatever.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/xx.y
> whatever.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/software/KDE:/KDE3/xx.y
> 
> Or:
> distribution.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/xx.y
> update.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/xx.y
> software.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/KDE:/KDE3/xx.y
> 
> Would be a heck of a lot easier to remember and setup for all of us. Is this 
> worthy of a bugzilla entry?

You're talking about something completely different than Felix here.

You want the update tree to be moved from ftp.suse.com to
ftp.opensuse.org. This has been discussed, and as you can see, it has
not been done.

I don't know why, but it does not break anything as-is, worked without
even the slightest valid problems (I mean real problems, not just
complaints as in "It's so hard for me to find it") since the first
"open" SUSE release (10.0) and I really wonder why this should be
important because users get both the update sources and the base
installation sources offered during installation.

Having said that, why not discuss it again (which doesn't mean that the
result of the second discussion will be different from the result of the
first one), but not under any circumstances will the update trees of
released distribution be moved. This would cause major troubles for all
users and benefit just those who don't want to follow the mirror lists
in our wikis.

Note that the current rationale is not "everything from the same
distribution together", but "update trees together" and "release trees
together". This reflects the fact that the update trees are always in
flux while the release trees never change; an important difference for
mirrors because some mirrors prefer to have only stable content (=the
release trees) and others prefer having only the smaller things (=the
update trees).
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