On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:41:41 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
* 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.
I also use the yum package from openSUSE 11.0 for openSUSE 11.0 boxes, for instance. It happens to work fine. Of course I *try* to use the package on other products also (and I report bugs accordingly, etc etc), it's just that I started to stick to a frozen version for SLE machines at some point in time. That is because I wasn't very successful in using the build service package and following its ups and downs. A working yum on openSUSE of Factory is more a thing of luck. Do you understand it better now? Of course, my preference for yum has also to do with habit, I don't deny that, but it is surely not the limiting factor. An important objective of mine is to ensure quality of service of a number of servers, and whatever tools can help best with that will be the tools I choose. I'm not engaging in "mine is cooler" discussions about this and I would like to make sure that this is understood.
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.
Yes, as Marcus says, we do that. No reason to assume that we don't.
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.
No, I wasn't referring to particular repositories. Usually I saw them accessing the normal update tree (thus, openSUSE). Peter -- "WARNING: This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful!" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development