Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (508 mails)

[Stephan Kleine <bitdealer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday December 9 2010 21:10:07 Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:02:05PM +0100, Stephan Kleine wrote:
> > On Thursday December 9 2010 20:10:59 Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:44:20PM +0100, Stephan Kleine wrote:
> > > > On Thursday December 9 2010 19:01:58 Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > The openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo is now up and has exactly one package
> > > > > that will install properly, git.  :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Jiri is working on getting the kernel packages building properly,
> > > > > and I'm looking at linking to network:samba:STABLE as that's a
> > > > > good place to get the latest stable samba packages.
> > > > >
> > > > > But, what I need from you all, is a request for what packages do
> > > > > you feel I should be updating right now, and hopefully you can
> > > > > provide a pointer to the repo for where these packages are (if
> > > > > they are only in FACTORY, that's fine as well.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, if any maintainers of packages wish to also maintain them in
> > > > > the tumbleweed repo, that's fine with me as well, just let me know
> > > > > your opensuse id.
> > > >
> > > > If you are comfortable with linking to another repo (I don't want to
> > > > maintain the stuff in 2 different places) feel free to link in my
> > > > OpenVAS stuff from security:OpenVAS:STABLE:v3 (libnet &
> > > > libgdchart-gd2 isn't needed for suse).
> > >
> > > That's exactly what I would like to do.  I'll link to the latest
> > > version, and when you update, could you ping me to update to a newer
> > > one?
> >
> > Not sure if I get you right. Fixing the links to point to a certain
> > version isn't necessary, IMHO, cause this repo will contain only
> > versions upstream considers stable so a simply link without version fix
> > should do it. Once their v4 got released I will ping you and ask you to
> > change the links to the security:OpenVAS:STABLE:v4 repo.
>
> So you move whole repos for new "stable" versions, from v3 to v4?
> Shouldn't you just do this with normal version updates instead?

Once v4 is released I will add a v4 repo so v3 & v4 will exist in parallel 
(upstream supports both releases for ~ 12 months and this way users can choose 
if they for some reason don't want the latest right now).

> Anyway, yes, that is fine, I'll link the packages to the v3 repo.  Do
> you want me to pick up all of the packages there, or some subset?

All of them except libnet & libgdchart-gd2 (those are just for Ubuntu).

regards,
Stephan
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