Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Friday 21 August 2009 09:15:50 Basil Chupin wrote:
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 21.08.2009 07:08, schrieb Basil Chupin:
The "fix" appears to have been installed earlier today via the auto update of zypper. However, I had to manually install the x.23 version of TB as YaST and zypper did not see any upgrades to TB x.22.
As you gone back to the original openSUSE packages zypp decided not to offer you the updates which would have changed the vendor to buildservice. (is my guess)
You know, this plethora of repositories required to run openSUSE and to also keep being part of the "testing community" is really the Achilles Heel (or Hell?) of openSUSE.
The Factory, the Build Service, the Community, the KDE:KDE4:/, the ..../Desktop, etc. and etc. repositories are really a big pain in the rearend.
I have always been (since 1986) a person who keeps his OS (any OS) at the "bleeding edge" of development but the recent development in oS have got me really scratching my head as to which repositories I need to be using.
It's not simply a matter of saying to me - and to others - "Just stay with the repos. when you installed a/the release version of oS" -- but this will not get 'you' the feedback re the OS which is what oS is all about.
Without inferring any suggestion of "His **** is bigger than your ****", I recently installed a daily build of Kubuntu 9.10 (9.10 is work-in-progress as you would know). When I boot it up, I (may) get a message showing that there are updates available. I do not need to look at repos. or alter them (?so far). When there are updates/upgrades I do not have to have to make decisions (based more guesswork than understanding) to resolve dependencies -- like I now get in oS re the application k3b (because of KDE4.3 vs KDE3 versions). And why are these dependency hassles exist in oS? (because of the plethora of repos existing for oS?)
If you compare with Kubunt 9.10, then you should use the Factory version. Install milestone 5 of openSUSE 11.2 and update with zypper dup - just one (or two) repositories that you need, nothing more.
But if you want to update some single applications on your 11.1, you have to do it as you described. Do you see a better alternative?
Andreas
Andreas, Please see my response earlier today (21 Aug) to a post by Karl Sinn in the thread "*milestone 5*" in this forum. I would dearly love to install a version of oS 11.2 - of *ANY* MS flavour, including MS5! - for testing. Today I downloaded, from ftp.gwd.de, a copy of the 11.2 KDE4 Live CD of MS6. As in the earlier copies of MS I downloaded, MS6 is - sorry - crap. (And yet other people have alleged that they are running MS5 and now even MS6.) Close to 700MB of my monthly download was wasted today by downloading a CD containing something which doesn't even get anywhere to being close to the point of showing me what 11.2 *may* look like, let alone allow me to install the darn thing. I checked the iso (as the other, earlier ones) for errors using md5sum and - again! - I get the error message that, "no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found". Checking the actual CD medium using the option on the MS6 CD gives me the error message that, "md5sum wrong" (just like on the earlier MSs). During an attempt to run the CD to get a "live" look-see of 11.2, the operation stops dead with pages full of error messages showing: INIT: ID "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes /etc/initscript: line 137: /sbin/mingetty: Input/output error /etc/initscript: line 137: /sbin/mingetty: Success [the above lines repeated at least 2x then the error msg continues-] INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes And this sort of sequence is repeated ad nauseum, until I feel that I should say a few nice, choice, words about oS, hit the big red button, go outside, kick the dog next door, then come back and reboot back to 11.1. The glimmer of light this time, however, is that I got the above innumerable pages of error messages whereas in the earlier MS CDs I got a black screen. Progress of some sort, I guess. And just for the record, I only use nVidia cards and have never used intel anything (I am an AMD man, period). BC -- Insanity is only a state of mind. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org