Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger [03.12.2014 14:35]:
On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 14:26 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
Hm, the page with instructions referring to 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed' is incorrect. There is no such directory available. Thus, leaving tumbleweed with software lagging in versions compared to the supported main distributions.
Maybe I do not understand the role of the tumbleweed/factory repositories? Are the only used for work on future releases? Not exactly what I understand of having a "rolling" release, or am I expecting to much?
Regards, Frans.
Frans,
Tumbleweed is a 'dual' role: it is a full rolling release, as you would expect (the update channel is not commonly used, as an update goes directly into the main repository; something, which a point-release does not get).
the 2nd role is to create the point releases; in essence: a snapshot on any random date should do :)
But, to the original issue: the update/channel is indeed not published as it seems (it is used for 'emergency' fixes, in a last resort to get a sec fix out, bypassing the full Staging/openQA test runs - obviously something that should be done with a bare minimum of cases.
Cheers, Dominique
PS: http://download.opensuse.org/update/factory/ seems still to work - it is redirected correctly; the /tumbleweed entry should do the same, but is apparently not setup yet)
Hm, I went along the guide, and setup the update/tumbleweed repo. While zypper is very picky about typos, I do not get any error that this repo update/tumbleweed causes any problems. So maybe it is visible for special user agents only? BTW, which software is older in tumbleweed than it is in 13.2? I mean, before the - in the version number? Werner --