Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:59:58PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/11/21 11:46 (GMT+0100) Stephan Kulow composed:
>
> > Am Freitag 21 November 2008 schrieb Felix Miata:
>
> > > I wish zypper config was as easy to quick change via mc as Smart config, in
> > > the /etc/ tree, where system config files belong.
>
> > You really did your homework and checked /etc/zypp, no?
>
> I didn't think it as simple as it looks. AFAIK, YaST*, with AFAIK 0
> repository config files in /etc, predates zypp(er?) by a bunch of years, and
> I have no idea how the interplay between them works. As a result, I've always
> used YaST to configure the primary (non-Smart) repositories, even though I
> rarely ever use any form of YaST for updating anything. With that as context,
> it's not obvious just from looking in /etc what regarding repos in /etc is
> safe to change or not, particularly since zypper is the tool I use, not
> YaST*, and not zypp, for doing updates.

YAST2 uses libzypp, same as zypper. So YaST uses /etc/zypp/ for the repository
configuration too.

Ciao, Marcus
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