On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Frans de Boer <frans@fransdb.nl> wrote:
On 12/03/2014 09:33 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Frans de Boer <frans@fransdb.nl> [12-03-14 15:19]:
All, yes, I also found it strange that a rolling release uses a update directory. But I am not that well informed.
Also, I checked too, and yes the URL is rewritten. Something Yast2 is not picking-up.
Still I see (among others) mozilla updates on distros which are not found in either factory or tumbleweed.
Ah, well. I think I just wait some time until tumbleweed start rolling again. If not, go back to 13.2 and use packman for the newer packages.
Tw is working, constantly. Although full versions are only issued when ready and that has been anywhere from two days to two weeks, incremental updates do appear several times every day and you are not restricted to only oss and non-oss repos as some of the packages that intrest you may be other places, such as: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/photo/openSUSE_Factory... which will become: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/photo/tumbleweed/
fwiw, on my system firefox is updated from http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss
which should be the Tw OSS repo (or will be shortly). http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
The newer packages are on Tw
Ok, thanks. It seems that TW is not fully operational. The thing is that I prefer TW instead of factory, because I understood that TW is the "more stable" version of factory and factory is a testing ground.
13.2 is stable too, but has some very old pieces of software as opposed to TW.
Frans.
First, nothing older than Nov 1 or so is accurate. Things have been renamed. The current status is: Testing rings: As core code is submitted to factory it is first put through rings of testing as it is put through an autoQA process. As each testing ring is passed, the packages under test are pushed to the next ring which has more and more "updated" packages in it. The final ring has all the latest and greatest that has made it through the previous rings. The final ring is called factory as it always has been. Factory itself gets put through an autoQA process. If it passes, then Factory gets pushed to Tumbleweed. Thus if the packages being pushed to factory are well behaved and work together well, all the autoQA test pass and Tumbleweed is updated in short order. Unfortunately, reality is different and factory can get in modes where it fails autoQA. This can go on for days or even a couple weeks as the devs try to get all the pieces working together. Thus, in my opinion "factory" should only be used that are troubleshooting autoQA failures. Tumbleweed is what should be used by anyone who wants the rolling release. That seems clear until you start looking at the devel repositories in OBS. The renaming of "factory snapshots" to Tumblewee only took place a month ago and the process is very much still in precess. Thus you will often find the repositories named factory, when the corrent new name is Tumbleweed. HTH Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org