On 10/03/2021 03.23, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:04 PM L A Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
On 2021/03/09 06:26, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
On 22/02/2021 04.17, L.A. Walsh wrote:
But that misses the point. The starting point in all of this was to be able to install current rpm's on my system as I've been able to do for the past 15 years.
What keeps you from updating your Tumbleweed to https://opensuse.zq1.de/history/20200801/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ that has every rpm .xz compressed(as has been the case for a long time)?
==== Other than this is the first I've heard of it, I'm not sure. When did opensuse switch to the new rpm-compression? I should see if any rpms from that site are readable, though I just managed to install rpm 4.14.1 from leap (though am not sure how much that helps anything).
As for what keeps me from updating ... I dunno what would work and what wouldn't until I try. So asking me what is keeping me from doing anything with something I didn't know anything about before you mentioned it -- hard to say really! ;-)
First: You should be updating your Tumbleweed system continuously, not letting it lag like this and letting it break.
You know, because it has been told more than once, that the system in question had hardware trouble and could not be updated for some months. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)