Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (11 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> Perhaps these things should not happen if all repos have the same
> priority; but they still can:
>   Yust imagine an update for program X is released sooner for
> OpenSuse11.0 than for OpenSuse11.1 (normally that should not happen, but
> in practice if something can go wrong it will go wrong).
>   Then program X will be replaced for the OpenSuse11.0 version instead
> of waiting for the same update as an Opensuse11.1 version. This is not
> what we actually want.

No, because the 11.0 package has a lower version-release than the 11.1
package.

> I would suggest user added repos to have a lower
> priority i.e. a higher number (how confusing) because these sources are
> generally less trustworthy (Packman, SW self compiled by Opensuse-users
> , 3rd party SW).

But all opensuse repos and the opensuse update repos have same
priority? Good, that's one point we're agreeing on.

>   This is also a security issue; and Opensuse has some kind of pent-up
> demand for more security (http://en.opensuse.org/Security). Besides this
> security may still be a reason to switch from Windows to Linux. We
> should not destroy our security concept by a slackness like this.

You're not getting all the bug reports like "zypper dup is downgrading
all my packman packages to opensuse"...

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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