On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:04 PM L A Walsh
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. The pitfall of rolling release distributions is that users *must* roll with it, or it won't work. If that's not the way you want to work, then switch to openSUSE Leap. Second: If you're really struggling to update your system because of the compression change, then you can bootstrap an upgrade by downloading a container rootfs[1][2], extracting it, bind mounting your main rootfs into a directory in it, and using the container's RPM + Zypper/DNF to do it. Third: Your quoting style is weird and breaks my client. How are you doing this and why? [1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory/opensuse-tumble... [2]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory/opensuse-tumble... -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!