Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Plater wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
> > I am not answering your specific question but I do sympathise with 
> > you with the general thrust of your concern.
> >
> > I find it difficult to come to grips with the notion of having to 
> > report 'bugs' while trying out something like Beta 1 (or whatever) 
> > because one doesn't know if it IS a bug, and if others are 
> > experiencing it as well, or something which is only related to your 
> > installation (because you didn't do something correctly, eg).
> >
> > It takes more time to find out if it is a 'bug' by trawling thru the 
> > bug reports than by simply asking a question here, in this mail list, 
> > but then, doing so, one is always aware that the first requirement of 
> > anyone before asking a question here is to make sure that it hasn't 
> > already been reported as a 'bug'.
> >
> > And then one also is intimidated by what you are stating has occurred 
> > to you (above). I have read what was said in the 'bug report' and 
> > find that it is totally mind-boggling to find it being implied that a 
> > Beta is a completely different animal to a Factory 'snapshot'! (And, 
> > to reinforce the point, one cannot talk about a Beta in the openSUSE 
> > mail list because any discussion about a Beta belongs in the factory 
> > mail list!)
> >
> > Ciao
>
> I see you've installed beta1. Try selecting some packages in yast and 
> then clicking the close window X on the title bar. You then have a box 
> asking abandon or cancel. Click cancel, which should cancel the 
> closing of yast. The command to find the pid of the program you have 
> to close to get yast or zypper to work again is ps -AF|grep y2base 
> just to save you the trouble of finding it yourself. You need to 
> update beta1 you have to enable the factory repo anyway and thats 
> where the problem comes from.
> Regards
> Dave P
I have taken this onboard and will try it out later.

But have you read my msg, "Updating Beta 1", I posted earlier?

What ARE the repos I have to enable to get Beta 1 upgraded/updated?

Ciao.


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