Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

["Benji Weber" <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/04/2008, Andreas van dem Helge <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there any reason why all the repos can't be the same? E.g.: I
>  installed a 10.3 system from the DVD then removed the DVD repo and
>  added the online repos: oss, non-oss and updates. Now when I try to
>  install packages I get "RPM dependency hell" alot of people won't try
>  RPM-based distros due to issues like this.

Perhaps if you supplied some examples some examples of the dependency
conflicts you are experiencing someone might be able to suggest the
cause. It is not normal.

Also what is the output of "zypper lr", perhaps you are missing one of
the main repositories.

>  Also midcycle someone thought it would be funny to remaster the 10.1
>  discs so if you downloaded 10.1 when it was released and then
>  downloaded say discs 2 and 3 a few months later these sets were not
>  compatible.

This was done only as a special exception in response to large
community demand. The original 10.1 release was so broken it was felt
necessary.

>  We really need to freeze the distro when its released. If any updates
>  need to be made they should be in the updates repository only. And the
>  diffrent repositories (DVD, CDROM, online, etc) all need to be 100% in
>  sync and compatible.

This is the case, it sounds like something else is causing your problem.

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Benjamin Weber
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