Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

[Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lukas Ocilka wrote:
> Vahis napsal(a):
>   
>>> During update (just after the update-partition is mounted), there is
>>> another dialog that displays previously used repositories and you can
>>> enable or disable them. You can even modify those sources in that dialog
>>> (Edit button) so a ".../10.2/" path can be easily replaced with
>>> ".../10.3/". This works for Packman as well.
>>>
>>> Lukas
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Of course!
>>
>> Why didn't I think of editing them at that stage!
>>
>> Now, I will do that with 11.0 then :)
>>     
>
> Well, that dialog wouldn't win the prize for "the most intelligent part
> of the installation", it's rather a bit dumb. It could be actually
> extended to inform users that they seem to had been using (previously
> enabled) repositories that are currently disabled and how to enable them
> or why (dropping not maintained packages by default).
>
> Additionally it could check the paths of "enabled" repositories and warn
> users if they were going to use old paths (such as 10.2 for 10.3, resp.
> 10.3 for 11.0). This seems to be worth a feature request.
>   

I agree. Definitely a place for a feature request.
Please, do.
> Does it make sense? It's a bit tricky to get the "current" version of a
> product just being installed, but it's not impossible ;)
>
> Lukas
>
>   

Not impossible, but to know these things you need to have done it before.

I think the installer interface should be even more polished to a
beginner doing his/her first openSUSE installation.

The possibility to add the external repos is already a step forward.
A clear indication to the option to update all the old paths would be
another one.
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