Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1956 mails)

["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When Linux is mentioned the word, and possibly its biggest benefit,
repositories, also comes into play. I understand a repository as a
software update store, where, once updates have been released and
tested, are placed i.e. similar to TUCOWS for the other operating system.

It  is my understanding that some of the repositories carry all the
updates to all the packages, whilst some only keep security fixes and
critical updates.

I only use rpm updates that Yast picks up as it enables the resolution
of package dependencies in a GUI format before the update tries to take
place.

I am currently using the skynet.be mirror for updates and recently saw a
post about source repositories.

ftp://ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.suse.com/suse/update/10.2/
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/


Two of the repositories that were of interest mentioned were:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-non-oss/suse

How do these repositories differ from Skynet ones? Are the less/more
complete than the one I am currently using or are the skynet ones merely
a mirror?

Should I add the new mentioned repos? Would they conflict with the
current ones as I see the folder structure is almost identical? When I
browse to the location I see a whole stack of rpms, but I assume these
are src rpms not package rpms and that Yast would not be able to install
an update to an rpm package from a rpm src package.

Help required in understanding the role of repos and how to use
them/determine if one is better than another.

What if a repo isn't available, due to network problems, can another
repo be added and used as a fallback repo?

Regards
Hylton
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