On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:03:19PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
On 2011-11-17T14:03:41, Eduard Huguet <eduardhc@gmail.com> wrote:
Why should be an "old TL" for 11.4 and a "new" one for 12.1? This is just contrary to what a rolling distro is: it should be only one TL repo, completely detached from main OpenSUSE version.
For a true rolling distribution, you'd be right.
However, Greg appears to want to use Tumbleweed as a "selective factory backports to the last official release", which I have no problem with.
Um, no, Tumbleweed has ALWAYS been stated as a rolling distro, with only 1 repo. Zillions of time people asked what would happen when 12.1 came out, and I stated "The Tumbleweed repo would be deleted and started over when 12.1 came out." Now I understand your frustration that things changed out from under your system, but really, was I supposed to wait for each and every individual user to move off of 11.4 before moving Tumbleweed to 12.1? It would always be "inconvient" for someone. So I did what I always said I would do, if anything, I've been totally consistent here. And as others pointed out, just disabling the repo, or, not doing a 'zypper dup', would work just fine for now until you wish to move to 12.1.
(Even if it's not a rolling distribution stream.) But even for that use case, my criticism of the release management would stand.
The "release management" of Tumbleweed matches that of openSUSE-current, i.e. it will move when the new release comes out. Sorry you were caught by suprise, what should I have done differently to make this easier next time that does not involve multiple repos? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org