Hello, first of all very many thanks to Raymond Wooninck! On Apr 6 13:44 Raymond Wooninck wrote (shortened):
On 06/04/09 13:08, Rainer Klier wrote:
build. I have build the packages to get feedback before I create the request to include this in the openSUSE standard repositories.
do you want to replace the version 2.8.7 of HPLIP which is in the oss-repo?
Well, that would be the logical step forward. However I am not the maintainer of the official openSUSE HPLIP packages. The alignment with the official maintainer is that I would build the package and offer it to a wider audience for testing. After some time we would validate the feedback and see how to move forward.
See the "HPLIP version" thread on the opensuse-factory list, e.g. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-04/msg00015.html Usually we do not provide official version upgrades for released openSUSE versions (i.e. curently up to openSUSE 11.1) except there are severe bugs which can only be solved by a version upgrade. To get version upgrades for released openSUSE versions you would usually have to use a non-official package repository. For example for HPLIP use Raymond Wooninck's home project repository. There is some risk with non-official version upgrades as Raymond perefectly explained in his announcement mail http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-04/msg00283.html -------------------------------------------------------------- ... those packages are ... not thoroughly tested so that any unexpected issue can happen. -------------------------------------------------------------- Using version upgrades from our official "factory" repository for an officially released openSUSE system (i.e. curently up to openSUSE 11.1) is the worst thing you can do. Again see Raymond's announcement mail http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-04/msg00283.html -------------------------------------------------------------- Do not use FACTORY if your system is 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1. Use the matching package for your particular system. FACTORY is not better, it is worse when you have openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1. Using whatever packages from FACTORY in a openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1 system causes crashes in arbitrary cases because you would also need the base system from FACTORY. You can easily mess up your openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1 system with FACTORY updates. -------------------------------------------------------------- By the way, as far as I know the easiest way to mess up your system with FACTORY updates is to simply add the FACTORY repository via YaST. Then - as far as I know - the package management magic in YaST may enforce a base system update from FACTORY when you install a single application software package from FACTORY according to what this application software requires to have in the base system from FACTORY so that you may get tons of additionally required packages from FACTORY downloaded and installed. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org