Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (600 mails)

[Andrea Florio <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 20/10/2009 15:15, Martin Schlander ha scritto:
> Some may have already noticed this bug/design choice:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548089
>
> If you add Packman or any OBS repo to 11.2rc, the updates will be hidden from 
> you by YaST and zypper - because they involve a vendor change. As seen in 
> this 
> screenshot:
> http://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=323038
>
> This means that to update libxine1, amarok or any other package in the distro 
> to Packman or OBS versions, you have three options:
>
> 1) Manually go to the Versions tab in YaST *every* time you want to replace a 
> distro package with a 3rd party one - with *nothing* whatsoever telling you 
> that an upgrade is actually available for your choosing - you must be aware 
> of 
> this yourself.
>
> 2) Set 'solver.AllowVenderChange = true' in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
>
> 3) create '/etc/zypp/vendors.d/foobar' with your trusted vendors.
>
> Naturally *no* new user will *ever* figure out any of this without expert 
> help 
> - and neither will most existing openSUSE users.
>
> I think the vast majority of openSUSE users add one or more Packman/OBS repos 
> and want to be able to upgrade packages in the distro without having to fight 
> the package manager to do it.
>
> Personally I think this is a total disaster for openSUSE, and a nightmare for 
> anyone who tries to promote openSUSE and help newbies. 
>
> Is it just me?

no, i completly agree...

the problem of that is coming from SLE where that is really important.

i think openSUSE need to made a choice... be just a development version
of the next SLE or really provide an userfriendly linux distro.

because i think any suse user likes the second option, all the
"enterprise specific" option should be develop but NOT ENABLED on OPENsuse.

Andrea
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