Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 18:39 -0400, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> > I would like to know why the OSS and non-OSS repositories are only in
> > the factory tree?  These are constantly in flux and trying to install
> > anything that relies on them when they are getting updated causes all
> > sorts of problems.  There should be a fixed set of repositories in the
> > distribution branch built and released with the betas and fixed to those
> > releases.  If someone then wants the dynamics of factory, they can opt
> > for it.  This is crucial, since there are so many packages that others
> > have dependencies on that are only in the on-line repos because of the
> > space issue with the DVD.  Today, I couldn't install some applications
> > because perl-curses was no where to be found while oss was getting
> > updated.
>
> +1
>
> Some kind of half-fixed photo of factory. Make a photo, better on fixed or
> known days and hours, and update it not every day, so that we have some
> time to download and test.

Actually it's a space problem. But I want the same and I already discussed
with Peter in the early stage of 11.1 to have that fixed state on widehat 
only - and then I left for my leave ;)

As time and space permits.

Greetings, Stephan

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