Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 of November 2008, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:10:12 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  I can understand why online updates have higher priority than our
> > official repositories, but this in practice feels wrong for extra
> > repositories, for two reasons:
> > - OSS is never going to get a newer package than online updates, but KDE
> > repo is, and this setup of priorities won't let me easily update to it
> > - we are not going to ship online updates for extra repositories, so I
> > don't see the point of online updates having higher priority than them,
> > also, by explicitly installing software from an extra unsupported
> > repository I've more or less given up on being guaranteed online updates
> > for them
>
> The question is - what is extra repository - the ones added by user?

 Anything that is not an official repository? I've been told this is not that 
simple to tell, but could this be e.g. told by the signature? OBS repos 
definitely have different signatures from the OSS repo.

> >  Would it be possible to order priorities as [official repos] < [official
> > updates] < [extra repos]? Or maybe make the dialog for adding
> > repositories also have a combo for [high priority]/[low priority]?
>
> Would that help or would it confuse users?

 Ordering the priorities the way I suggested? I can definitely see where the 
current way can confuse, in which way would you expect my suggested order to 
confuse?
- newer version wins, that doesn't seem confusing (thinking of it, perhaps 
it'd be better if extra repos had the same priority like online updates, not 
higher, to really make it just 'newest version wins')
- explicitly added software wins, that doesn't seem confusing either

 In fact, why exactly don't all repos by default have the same priority, 
official, unofficial, online update or not, whatever? Why do online updates 
need to have a higher priorioty? I don't think 11.0/OSS repo has changed 
since 11.0 was out, so 11.0/updates should simply win by merely having newer 
versions. The moment somebody uses Factory/OSS, then of course there is a 
problem, but that's again people explicitly using unstable repos.

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