3 Feb
2013
3 Feb
'13
10:51
Hi Greg, On 02/03/2013 10:49 AM, Greg KH wrote: > Hi all. > > So Tumbleweed is, I think, almost 2 years old now. Thank you for your excellent work on this > It seems to be > working fairly well, or at least well enough for my daily use, and I > haven't heard any complaints about it in a long time which means that > either no one is using it, or it's working for others :) I am using it for 1+ year now and it is working great. I am upgrading once a month. The only 2 issues I have: 1. some dev projects have not yet created tumbleweed repositories on OBS (I have taken care of that for things that I maintain) 2. some updates from openSUSE-current-oss-updates are incompatible with current package versions. Perhaps there should be a Tumbleweed-oss-updates repository to port those updates. > > Anyway, with the advent of 12.3 soon, I have been thinking if Tumbleweed > needed to change any to make things work better. > > My original set of complaints a year or so ago about OBS issues that > keep us having a "proper" rolling distribution, still pretty much are > the same: > - the build-number issue > - build speed > - dependancy rebuild problems. I think that this is similar to my update issues :) > > Build speed of OBS has increased recently, I don't know if it's just my > imagination, or if I have a higher priority for my repos now, or if new > hardware really was added to the build system, but I'm happy things seem > to be working better in that area at the moment. > > But the other two issues are still big ones, as the recent GNOME update > in Tumbleweed proved quite well. > > So, I was thinking about maybe, when 12.3 changing Tumbleweed from being > an "add-on" repo on top of the 12.3 repos, to being a "full" distro > snapshot. That would resolve the build number problems we have had, but > the dependancy rebuild issue would increase. This is a great idea. Is there a plan on how to sync during a stable release though? > > The rebuild problem can be manually handled, much like FACTORY currently > is, but odds are, I would lean toward the conservative side, having more > rebuilds than are probably necessary just to ensure that systems work > well. That means that libreoffice would be updated on a weekly basis > for users, which might get annoying over time :) Is it really necessary to update libre-office so often? Perhaps packages that cause big file downloads should be kept to once per 2 weeks or more. Thoughts? > > Any thoughts by anyone about this? Or should I just do it and see how > well it works out? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Thanks, Angelos -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org