Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

[Carlos F Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu November 1 2007 06:56, Richard Creighton wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Hi Boyd,
> >
> > Hmm, maybe I don't know what your background is. But why do these
> > 200 users you know want to use the repair system?
> >
> > We might consider doing a delta later on, but for now it's more
> > important to give people a tool in the hand, so you can continue
> > with the DVD you have. Because people who bought a openSUSE box
> > don't have much use of a delta.
> >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > And you created bug reports about all of them during the beta
> > phase?
> >
> > Greetings, Stephan
>
> Stephan, You *know* I did....and many are still open.   And the one
> closed regarding the repair issue on the ISO on the release was
> closed with a rather expedient 'we'll release a patch' rather than
> 'oops, let's replace the iso before too many people have downloaded
> it and it spreads'.  I thought the delays in delivering the boxed
> sets might be because the paying customers at least, might be getting
> the benefit of a corrected set of install DVDs, but from what I can
> tell, that didn't happen either.    Shame!

Will the new Live DVD of 10.3 contain the patched repair system?
That would solve the problem I guess, since the rest of the packages 
will be compatible with 10.3-GM and for a repair there si nothing 
better than a live DVD.
-- 
Carlos FL

Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
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