Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (11 mails)

[Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@xxxxxxxx>]

Michael Schroeder schrieb:
> 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.
All opensuse repos and the opensuse repos should have the same priority.
I agree, if there is no real need to assign different priorities we
should not make an artificial difference.
  However I guess there has been good reason in giving the update repo
the highest priority. In general I think if we can install the core
package from DVD and apply a delta-rpm or patch from the update source
thereupon then we should do that because not all users may have an
unlimited internet access with huge bandwidth (perhaps we wanna let the
user make a choice upon this on sys-install in the future).
  That would at least mean to give the update-repo and the DVD a higher
priority than the online repos by default, wouldn`t it?

> >   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"...
... but a well downgraded system will work better and contain fewer errors!

> Cheers,
>   Michael.

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