Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Phil Burness <pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 08:25, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:00 -0400, Bob S wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 15:10, jalal wrote:
> > > On 03/10/06, Lennart Börjeson <Lennart.Borjeson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I have really no idea (havn't had any problems with smart myself),
> > > > but perhaps
> > > > the suggestions in this thread work for you, too?
> > > >
> > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=485558
> > >
> > > No, not really. The problem is simply that the packagers are not
> > > putting the correct paths in the smart metadata. Packages are being
> > > made for 10.1 and the meta files are being copied over as-is for the
> > > 10.0 branch. Which doesn't work... :(
> > >
> > > Smart itself works fine.
> >
> > Sooooo......who are these packagers ????.  And how do we notiy them that
> > the packages are screwed up??  Novell???  SuSE ??? And how do we get them
> > fixed?
>
> This is indeed a big problem. When I look at the repos directory, I get
> a nice page with the package names, dates, and other interesting package
> links. But no names. No maintainer. No place to provide constructive
> info about a repos problem. This is not a forward looking solution. Even
> an e-mail link to someone would be nice.
>
> I guess everyone is anonymous.
>
For the packman repo's you can contact them at packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I'm sure there are similar e-mail addresses for the other maintainers if you 
check their websites.

Phil