On Tuesday 20 October 2009 18:45:58 Martin Schlander wrote:
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:
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.
Set 'solver.AllowVenderChange = true' in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
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?
I just saw this last night and looked up bugzilla. Frankly, I thought this was a bug, that this was by design really beats me. If there are conservative users who only want the "official" packages from openSUSE/Novell they will not add any additional repos. But for the others (and these are the majority) this is very bad to say the least. Should we vote for this in bugzilla to convince the assignee (I don't think discussing this on ml's is going to help)? -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org