On 2011-11-17T07:08:57, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
So I did what I always said I would do, if anything, I've been totally consistent here.
Well, perhaps the notion was so outlandish to me that I didn't expect your words meant what you intended them to mean ;-)
The "release management" of Tumbleweed matches that of openSUSE-current, i.e. it will move when the new release comes out.
Well, opensuse-current is different though.
Sorry you were caught by suprise, what should I have done differently to make this easier next time that does not involve multiple repos?
I think "multiple repos" is actually the right and only answer here, leaving them in the state they were in. Just consider the need to downgrade, reinstall, or clone a system; wiping out a repo like that just doesn't seem to be perfect. Or merely trying to see what the last TW version was. I don't think we're that pressed for disk space that we can't keep them around for a few months. Or perhaps find someone to maintain them in the meantime, if someone interested would step forward. That said, if the TW repo had some package or some channel encoding that depended on the base openSUSE it is based on it would prevent silly mistakes like people adding the repo to the wrong base version. (i.e., I once - accidentally - managed to add TW to my 11.3 laptop when it was actually already based on 11.4. zypper doesn't warn, there's no significant error message, one just gets to find all the ABI issues in libraries where people aren't handling major/minor properly. ;-) It's actually quite a subtle failure mode, *almost* everything works, but some small stuff won't.) Just consider if someone didn't try dup now, but in 1-2 months where the repo was already reasonably filled again with the usual suspects. They'd even notice, just be left with a broken system. So - leave the old repo, and add a tumbleweed-release package that requires the proper openSUSE-release package. Both would be best, but one would already be an improvement ;-) Regards, Lars -- Architect Storage/HA SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org