Holy crap. I just realized that OBS has blown away ALL 11.3 repos, including my home directory, not just openSUSE:Tools. Argggh... trying to remain philosophical here... We have a bunch of mission critical machines running openSUSE 11.3. Why? Because one of the attractive features of openSUSE is that it is very stable and runs great for a long time. But now all of these machines are essentially unsupportable (and unreproducible), until we force them through an upgrade process that creates risk. So the aforementioned long term stability of openSUSE has just been invalidated as a feature! The openSUSE community is not just a bunch of Linux kids who all like to live on the bleeding edge. It's used for serious applications all over the place. To some of you folks 11.3 may seem like ancient history but in my world it's chugging along nicely. It's only been out for 18 months for goodness sake! OK, I can accept that I'm in the minority. So what is the right answer then for me? I guess Tumbleweed is supposed to be the solution to this problem? In any case, here is one thing I still don't understand: will someone please explain to me why RHEL 4, released 7 years ago, is more important to the openSUSE community than openSUSE 11.3, released 18 months ago? -Archie On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 08:13 -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote:
What I'm simply trying to say is: just because 11.3 is itself EOL, that doesn't mean OBS projects should start dropping the 11.3 repo right away.
Do others not agree?
I'm going to assume that the EOL'ed repos get dropped due to storage conservation reasons. (only an assumption.) If that is the case, what do you propose is the length of time such repos should exist?
Longer than (for example) RHEL, which was first released seven years ago... ?
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