Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

on Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> * log entries in .changes file
>
>   Just a simple "Update to version x.y" is not valid in the packages
>   changelog but happens far too often.
>
>   Goal: present the changes done to packages to users in a good way
> and use that for e.g. Release Notes.

Do you really want to include the full changelog in the specfile?
IMHO this would bee too much.

(What about including NEWS instead of ChangeLog?)

> * Updating openSUSE:
>
>   What options do users have for updating from one release to the
> next one?  Which of these will we support?  Some current options:
>   - Boot from CD
>   - zypper update
>   - System Update

If it isn't too difficult, I would like to have a supported way to 
upgrade a running system. Please offer both zypper (for command-line 
fans) and YaST2 System Update (for more mouse-orientated users).

> * Moving languages out of packages followup:
>
> The idea is to add to spec file of packages a new rpm macro so that
> subpackages are created and then related subpackages are repacked for
> each language in our build system.  This way we would get
> e.g. basesystem-$lang and gnome-$lang packages and those can then be
> installed.

Good idea, I don't understand most of the languages anyway. But please 
make sure the package overhead isn't larger than the files it 
contains...

In case of very small $lang packages, don't split off the languages. It 
might be a good idea to add all language provides to the main package 
in this case for easier dependency solving ("_each_ package requires 
the $lang package the user wants").


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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