On 8/13/22 00:53, sac@cse.unl.edu wrote:

I have been using the build service for years, including for a number of SLES 12 computers. I have a number of repositories configured on these computers that point to some variation of:

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-12 (or SLE-12-SP5)

But there is no SLE-12, whether it be plain SLE-12 or SLE-12-SP5, only SLE-10:, SLE-11: and SLE-15-SP3:

There are also numerous packages that point to the SLE-12 repositories that fail to install. One that I've encountered recently is for the ninja package at https://software.opensuse.org/package/ninja

There is a link for "Experimental Packages" for SUSE SLE-12-SP5 that configures repositories as described above, but which don't exist.

Has support for SLES 12 been discontinued or am I missing something?

Support from the community for package hub should still build / work / be available and that would be the best way to get community provided packages for SLE 12. While SLE-12-SP5 is still supported from the SUSE side from an openSUSE perspective only the 15sp3 and 15sp4 variants are still actively supported so while some packages might show up still on software.opensuse.org for 12sp5 this likely means that someone has probably got them to build in a repo somewhere somehow (maybe with additional packages) but doesn't mean that anyone has tested that they are installable and or useable. Packages from software.opensuse.org really come with no guarantees for example if I created a package in my home directory called ninja containing a file with an ascii art drawing of a ninja this would still show up in the list on software.opensuse.org, Packages there targeted at 15.3 or 15.4 are more likely to work because openSUSE users and developers tend to still care more about them. If you want to attempt to build packages for yourself you should do so by enabling openSUSE:Backports:SLE-12-SP5 as a repo. But you may run into a number of other issues such as its entirely possible that the version of python the latest ninja release now requires is newer then what we have in SLE-12 (I didn't check its just an example of what could be wrong) in such a case you'd probably need to compromise on the last version of ninja that supported the python we currently have etc which starts to become alot of work. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B