On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:09:39AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Mittwoch 29 Oktober 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On Wednesday, 2008-10-29 at 18:39 -0400, Mike McCarthy wrote:
I would like to know why the OSS and non-OSS repositories are only in the factory tree? These are constantly in flux and trying to install anything that relies on them when they are getting updated causes all sorts of problems. There should be a fixed set of repositories in the distribution branch built and released with the betas and fixed to those releases. If someone then wants the dynamics of factory, they can opt for it. This is crucial, since there are so many packages that others have dependencies on that are only in the on-line repos because of the space issue with the DVD. Today, I couldn't install some applications because perl-curses was no where to be found while oss was getting updated.
+1
Some kind of half-fixed photo of factory. Make a photo, better on fixed or known days and hours, and update it not every day, so that we have some time to download and test.
Actually it's a space problem. But I want the same and I already discussed with Peter in the early stage of 11.1 to have that fixed state on widehat only - and then I left for my leave ;)
As time and space permits.
We now have such a fixed factory snapshot, which can (and is) accessed by clients after installation, even though factory itself has already moved on. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development