2011/5/20 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>:
What "manual"?
For example there was "HowTo" at opensuse tumbleweed forums, but now it seems to be updated.
I never recommend the "--from Tumbleweed" option.
Correct. I tried to say that you recommend to use "zypper dup" and not to use "zypper dup --from Tumbleweed".
Just always do a simple "zypper dup" and that's all you need. Sometimes, depending on the state of Tumbleweed, packages will move to and from the Tumbleweed repo and the 11.4 repo.
Heh... It's logical that Tumbleweed contains the newest stable software, tested for compatibility with each other and it's not good idea to mix it with 11.4. I thought that it is not normal to change vendor from Tumbleweed to 11.4 during regular updates, but it is as I see.
Because of the size and because we don't need to do this. It also offers a "safe way out" if something goes wrong in Tumbleweed. We can (and do) drop packages from Tumbleweed and they revert back to the original, "safe" version from 11.4. Same for you, if you don't want to use Tumbleweed, just drop that one repo, and everything reverts back to a stable release level.
The size... I didn't think that disk space is the problem nowadays, but looks like it is. About "safe way out" if it will be tumbleweed-all-in-one-repo. You can still replace messy package with last stable one, for example from 11.4. And it'll be downgraded next update. It's some kind of critical measures and not a good practice I think. Because Tumbleweed declared as "newest _stable_ and ready for daily use". It's better to do fixes and updates. For me, if I don't want to use Tumbleweed. I will change tumbleweed repo to 11.4 repo and will do a "dup". And everything reverts back to a stable release level.
What license issues are you seeing today? What non-oss package do you want in Tumbleweed?
I do not see any license problems today. Moreover I do not stick any strict license policy. But it is a good practice to split repo this way I think. May be in future. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org