-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-05-28 04:55, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 21:39, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I just posted that long list to show that users do indeed get non working repos, contrary to what Andrew said.
I never said user's don't always get working repos, actually what I mean by "breaking the package manager" is exactly that. The package manager works perfectly fine until one day *poof* something is done on the server and any action you try to take in your package manager fails. IMO that's broken.
Ah, ok.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 20:59, Nelson Marques <> wrote:
2. One month before the EOL add a small package which will force that any sessioned login on a console will print out: "This product life cycle finishes on $DATE. PLEASE UPGRADE!"
This mentality is why we have this issue to begin with. Just because there will be no future development work on a particular distribution doesn't mean there are users that still use it, are happy with it and have no compelling reason to upgrade.
Yes, it happens a lot. I'm still using it, till I have time to upgrade. 11.4 had a lot of issues, many unsolved yet. An openSUSE version is at its best several months after release... and then it is removed.
Now, I still see 11.1 repos on widehat.opensuse.org and download.opensuse.org so I don't understand what the issue is. If a 3rd party deleted their repo, that's beyond our control.
No complaining with that. But there are users out there that simply are not aware that a version is EOL and don't understand why the updater is failing suddenly on several repos. The updater could be clever and warn the user that the version is EOL. The updater could simply check for existence of, for example, "http://opensuse.org/EOL/11.2.html" Simply a nice feature to have, IMHO. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3g6VYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V0tQCfciLJd86AslApkTs57gZaRTRg fIAAnAoYxv66lkL1Km3LTRQqdxvAa9Vg =E6KC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org