Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (420 mails)

[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Creighton wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider:
> > > > This would require remastering 10.3 and we want to avoid that.
> > > How is that? Deltas are used all the time to update the alpha/beta
> > > releases, how is this different? Just curious.
> > When we master a new alpha, we create a delta to the last one. But this time
> > we don't want to master a new release. We only want to provide a meaning for
> > the few that have a problem on their hardware.
> If I understand this statement correctly, only a few people experienced
> the inability to utilize the repair module on the install disk?   That
> is good news indeed.   I thought 100% of the people that had an
> inability to boot their installed system and therefore unable to reach
> the released patch to the repair program would fail to be able to use
> the install disk to repair their installation sufficiently to boot
> sufficiently to be able to reach the patched repair program.  If as you
> say, this broken installation disk only affects a few people, then I can
> understand the attitude of 'why bother'.

I do not know anyone that is able to use the repair system.  I am talking
about aprox... 200 users.  This to me is a major pita.  I really think
that we should get a delta.  I really need to create new iso's.  I am
getting pestered because of the repair system.


> I know publishing an new set of *.iso files with some of the fixes would
> inconvenience a few people at openSuSE.org and do nothing for SuSE's
> reputation.  The facts are that important parts of 10.3 were released
> broken and the fixes can't be distributed by 'updates' unless those
> updates are included in the boxes people are now receiving in the
> mailbox...and it doesn't appear that they are.

This is the general opion I am seeing.  I could not upgrade/install 6
systems with the download DVD.  They install/upgrade fine with the 10.2,
but 10.3 is really boarked.  I do have 2 out of 10 system running 10.3.

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