* Peter Poeml [2008-08-28 15:34]:
I can assure you it has been working very well during the last years. As I indicated, I care more about SLES, and I use my own build of yum (that I can rely on).
If you use your own version, why do you care about the yum in Factory at all? I don't get that point.
You need to know that the build service uses repo-md metadata, which is the yum-style metadata which zypper happens to understand _also_. In the past, there have been discussions on and off whether to introduce features in our metadata that would make them incompatible with yum, smart and other package managers. I consider it the right thing that we could avoid that. Thus, I'm all for diversity in this regard. It is a strength of us (and of the build service in particular) that you can use it from different distributions, with various package managers, because our metadata stays on common ground.
I agree with that. If zypper needs features that are not possible with current meta data, why not talk with developers of yum about that? So that the meta format gets extended (in a backward-compatible way) without having again a SUSE-only stuff.
BTW, when looking in the download.opensuse.org logs, then yum is the second most used package manager after libzypp-based clients.
Do you count Fedora/RedHat repos? I would still guess that smart is more used in openSUSE than yum. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org