On Saturday 02 October 2010 08:04:17 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
Recently, somebody enough "high up" has decided to change the address of the "source" repository for 11.2 (one of the official repos). This has resulted in many users broken packagekit, zypper or yast, because although disabled, the repository was left by the default installation on "refresh". ... I thake this point here, to project, because any change done can do damage to others. This was done without forethought for our users. It was not even announced!
I propose that such changes are forbidden by policy, repository addresses frozen till life end of the distro.
We don't have web links policy that will prevent changes on any server in the infrastructure, announced or not. Problem is that we don't have web link creation guidelines that one can read before creating the link. The result is that links are created without thoughts on their longevity and as consequence there is a need to change them from time to time. The example is recent wiki reconstruction efforts that resulted in a lot of broken links. We should start using portals as reference, instead of direct links to pages. That will create fewer pages that must have stable links and we will have lesser problems later when time comes to change names of articles again. Having central navigation points is one of methods that mitigates problem, but it must be used to be effective.
Or, design some method to communicate a message to zypper from the server about those changes.
The redirect on the server to new location will suffice. It will work with or without announcement. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org