Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

["solenoid (lists)" <radules@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I used to update my KDE and GNOME by adding yast-source paths from
various suse mirror servers to my instalation sources list in Yast...
One example is this:
ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source

Other ones, similar to the above, were available for 10.0, and both for
32 and for 64bit... I assume many members of this list know and use
this. BTW I myself learned that from this list some time ago...

Now (and it started from May 26th as far as I noticed) all the mirrors,
one by one, started removing the KDE update directory structures. There
is a README file put instead, pointing to some open suse repositiries.
But, these repositories are not formaly structured in the way that is
acceptable by Yast as a valid yast-source, so I can not use Yast for
this purpose any more.

So, what we have here? One fine fully-functional and very convenient
mechanism for upgrading if discontinued, with no adequate substitute given.
And, yes, this is true *for KDE only*. Because, in the same time,
yast-sources for GNOME continued to work in the old fashioned way... (at
least whithin last week or so)...

Does it have anything to do with the "gnome orienation" declared by
Novell some time ago? I understood that it meant just putting more
support in the gnome branch comparing to the kde one - not explicit
crippling of the kde support and putting blocking obstacles in the way
of kde users... Or is it just first move in the direction of replacing
yast updater with something new (as I see it is happening with 10.1
right now)???

As a user who *bought* at least one box (mostly two) of each from the
following list (6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.3
and 10.0) and who took the freedom to choose kde instead of gnome - I
feel *very bad* now.

Or, it is me who missed something obvious?

Any comments....suse people on the list anyone... TIA

rms


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