James Ogley
Just a thought that had been going through my head over the weekend...
At the moment on OpenSUSE.org, we provide a link on the Download page to the information on external YaST repositories, and there has been talk of making some of them available in YaST as an option in future versions.[1]
Thing is that that's for sw_single and the same doesn't also apply for online_update - it can only have one source of packages at a time, and to say to users: "Sometimes you will want to run the Online Update option in YaST to get the latest updates, but sometimes you'll want to run the Software Management option is little counter-intuitive.[2]
I would like to suggest it be consolidated into a single component that handles adding and removing packages, as well as updating from all YaST sources, and SUSE update trees. That's all I'm going to say about it now, any thoughts? In fact, is anyone else on this list? ;)
I'm on the list ;-) Yes, a long needed change. If you install a new package, you do not want to install the old version from the repository or media and then have to run a YOU update to get the fixes in... Hope we can get this implemented soon - we have already folks evaluating this. Thanks for the suggestion, Andreas
[1] Note that those external repositories need to be set to refresh on YaST startup. [2] This has come out of the fact that I'm going to be setting up "OSS" for some friends, and I've gone through exactly this thought process before giving them the CDs.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126