On 11/2/23 12:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-02 01:31, Simon Lees wrote:
On 11/2/23 09:19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-11-01 17:14, Ben Greiner wrote:
Am 01.11.23 um 05:52 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
This repo seems to have gone away:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/15.5
Now there is one for 15.6 instead.
I'll guessing that this is a mistake?
Friendly reminder not to use devel:languages:python as repository. Ever.
From the project description: > Backporting of packages against older distribution releases should not be happening in this project, only build verification. If a package is needed on any of the older openSUSE products then maintenance update is to be created. Alternatively for SLE products submission by an interested party should be done by openSUSE:Backports project.
Where in YaST or zypper can we read those descriptions before we add a repo?
Tools to add repos, like the web search, or "opi", don't give any information. We users only have the name of the repos.
This info doesn't exist because none of these repositories are designed or intended to be used by general end users. They exist in general to be used by developers for development and testing purposes and shouldn't be considered something that is officially offered or supported by the openSUSE project. Although there are times where more experienced users do use some of these repo's at there own risk although this is certainly not something recommended by the project in general.
My point is, how are we to know?
The fact that openSUSE has extra repos is a selling point in the promotion materials. But we have no way to know which repos we can use and which we can't.
This is something we shouldn't be doing.
We just need some application that is not in the main repos, we use the facilities to find what repo has it, we add the repo, install the package, maybe the package wants some extra library, we search for it, we add that extra repo. No one tells us what repos are good to use and which are not. There is no repository description anywhere that we can read.
You should consider no repo safe to use without risk except for maybe a select few hosted by 3rd parties to resolve issues around non license compliant drivers or other patent encumbered software that openSUSE can't legally ship.
There is a communication problem here.
Indeed
(I think I needed to add the python repo at some point on some computer because some other program, perhaps some update of SA, wanted it. I don't have access at the moment to that computer to check.)
The python repo is especially good for randomly breaking your system, the backports repo on Leap can be manageable if you really know what your doing. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B