Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:24:53 skrev Benji Weber:
> I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to
> install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want
> build service re-cripped newer versions to override them. Also it
> would help discourage upgrade all mentality which would replace all
> suse supported packages with the newer unsupported versions on packman
> when the user doesn't require the newer version.
>
> > I see and i dont like it. Because that would mean that you never get
> > anything updated from a 3rd party repo because there the vendor will
> > always be != <what you have now a.k.a. SUSE after a install
>
> User would still be able to request upgrade to a different vendor, but
> automatic upgrades to different vendor are more likely to cause
> problems than be useful imo.

I agree. But Henne makes a good point too, and I have no doubt that many, many  
users will be very unhappy if "upgrade all"-behaviour is made more difficult 
for them - even if it is for their own good ;-)

Many already want it to be even easier than now - for example by 
opensuseupdater supporting it.

Maybe it could be possible to have two options.

Only do semi-automatic updates from same vendor (default)

and 

Do semi-automatic upgrade of any package where newer version is avaialable, 
(break-my-SUSE)
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