Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 January 2012 14:10:27 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxx> [01-14-12 14:08]:
> > On Saturday 14 January 2012 13:58:13 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > > I have 4.7.4-10.10 installed (as indicated by "(System Packages)")
> > > > and zypper dup wants to install 4.7.4-6.30.2, obviously a lower
> > >
> > > Probably due to the openSUSE buildservice servers being broken (until
> > > Monday AM their time).  They lost three drives out of one array.
> >
> > No, unfortunately this is a long standing problem with the build service.
> > At any given time, you have "updates" in other repositories which have
> > lower release numbers than the packages in the original openSUSE
> > repositories. Release number handling between repositories in OBS is and
> > has always been completely broken (there is no way to say a package in
> > repo A should get a higher release number than the same package in repo
> > B, there is no way at all to guarantee a strictly increasing sequence of
> > release numbers)
>
> other than limiting the repos which you subscribe....

Sadly not even that helps. The release numbers within a repo will frequently 
reset for no reason I have been able to determine

Anders
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