-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2008-10-18 at 15:37 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* "Carlos E. R." <> [2008-10-18 15:07]:
That would surely help :-)
+1. But I think that's hard to implement without loosing the "rebuild every dependent package" feature. You cannot have all: The current concept of clean builds makes perfectly sense for a distribution with releases, but not as much for a Factory distribution.
Well, update the release version or whatever of each package, but somehow don't download it all. I have no idea how, of course, don't know enough of the internals.
You should also consider creating a file that contains the "release number" of the entire repo, so that this can be reported on Bugzillas. It could be a timestamp, stored as another line in "SuSE-release", perhaps.
That would not help since that stuff is not archived. That would mean: Even if you have that number, you cannot get a system to that state because the files are not there any more. For snapshots, we have Beta. Factory is a moving target.
Okay, with the OBS you would have at least the source that produced the binary build, which sometimes is sufficient.
It would help when reporting to know how "old" is the factory and whether the reported problem might have disappeared. Not only for you, who can learn that info from the rpm versions numbers, but for the rest of people on the mail list who can't. As you intend to keep updating factory faster than before, we will not know what factory version we have installed. Also, if we have, say, version 1990 locally and zypper is upgrading to version 1992, if we detect that the number has changed to 1993 on the repo while running "zypper dup", we know (and zypper can know) that we have to restart zypper, instead of seeing strange errors about "package not found". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj59D4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WwkACfYJ/KHqAuaAgjVfPQu5B1A372 O2gAoIHRQIfXsJIAVkl0kCiBoUu50gAf =RFQJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org