Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (60 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 09:27:21 schrieb Rob OpenSuSE:
> 2009/12/4 Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>:
> > We have already problems finding mirrors to mirror the source rpms,
> > double the content is not really helping here.
> >
> > Also, you typically only need the sources of some packages, where you
> > want to have a look and not all of them. It would be just a waste of
> > resources IMHO.
> >
> > And in the end, I consider src.rpms anyway as resource waste. It is way
> > more easy to stay update 2 date with osc. You can check out the source
> > where you are interessted in with it (or also all from a project), you
> > can read the history, you can easily keep up 2 date and you can even fix
> > something via that. You have also one interface to get all different
> > versions of sources between the distro versions, the updates and user
> > variations.
> >
> > All of that is not doable via offering source rpms, so, maybe we can get
> > rid of src rpms at all later ...
>
> All true, but it doesn't let the user say they actually have all the
> source, that they use.
>
> Perhaps a script to ensure up to date source has been downloaded for
> every installed package, would meet the user requirements and those of
> binary ISO distributors?

You can either use YaST for installing package sources or use rsync to keep a 
copy of the source rpm tree.

I fail to see the need for an additional iso.

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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