Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:09:39AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 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.

We now have such a fixed factory snapshot, which can (and is) accessed
by clients after installation, even though factory itself has already
moved on.

Peter
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