Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 June 2006 01:59, Mark A. Taff wrote:
> To summarize the previous discussion about apt and suse's package
> management:
>
> 1.  The rpm packages for KDE updates have been removed from the apt
> repository at ftp.gwdg.de, with more packages to be removed in the near
> future.

No. The packages were never in the apt repository. Other people made an apt 
repository that *pointed* to those packages. They can do it again. They don't 
need a new release of apt for that, all that's needed is to set their mirrors 
to point somewhere else. They used to download the packages from 
ftp.suse.com, now they're at opensuse.org

> 2.  Apt will not work with the opensuse build service. 

huh?

bash will not work with MS Office

makes just as much sense. One is a build service, the other is a package 
management tool.

If you mean apt will not work with the repositories on opensuse where packages 
built in the build service end up, then you are wrong. All someone has to do 
is create an apt repository that mirrors, indexes and references them - just 
like they did before

> 3.  The opensuse build service is *ALPHA* software.
> 4.  An as-yet-unreleased future version of apt4suse might work with the
> opensuse build service.

see above

> 5.  Using packages from the opensuse build service will will tie you to the
> bugs and features of the version of KDE initially released with the version
> of suse (i.e. 10.1 users will be stuck with KDE 3.5.1, even though three
> additional bugfix, translation and new feature releases will have been
> released by this August--3.5.4 gets tagged at the end of July).

huh? 3.5.3 is already there.

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