On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:

Quoting Damian Ivanov :

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Hi ppl,

In openSUSE for adding a repo we do a zypper ar $repo, the repo files are not owned by any rpm package AFAIK. Fedora has $REPO_NAME-release rpm in each repository installing the gpg key and the .repo file. Is there any purpose openSUSE not doing so or has this other reasons?

That sounds a bit like a chicken/egg issue to me: how do I get the $REPO-NAME-release.rpm if it's in the repo?

It would make sense to have these live in openSUSE:Update or similar to have something chain-of-trust'ish.

In essence, it's two different ways to do the same thing, with no real advantage of one over the other I guess.

With the one-click-web-installer, I agree. On the CLI, you'd save a few characters by not typing the full url (but usually, I assume, they're copied and pasted anyway). -- Kind regards Christopher 'm4z' Holm / 686f6c6d "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion" --Robert M. Pirsig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote:

Quoting 686f6c6d <686f6c6d@googlemail.com>:

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In essence, it's two different ways to do the same thing, with no real

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advantage of one over the other I guess.

With the one-click-web-installer, I agree. On the CLI, you'd save a few characters by not typing the full url (but usually, I assume, they're copied and pasted anyway).

This would only be true if the main repository would contain an rpm for any and each 3rd party repository there is, so you could 'enable' that repository using zypper...

Yes, I made that assumption above (and wrote that, too).

for any other repo, you'd have to download the rpm, install it, then install packages from the repository you just enabled like this.

Using zypper, knowing you want to enable the KDE:Foo repo, you wuold just zypper ar obs://KDE:Foo KDE:Foo

Interesting, I didn't know zypper can handle obs://-style URLs. Thank you very much for that insight! I rest my case, I see no real advantage. (: -- Kind regards Christopher 'm4z' Holm / 686f6c6d "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion" --Robert M. Pirsig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org