On 2023-04-21 12:28, Erik Skultety wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-04-21 12:17, Erik Skultety wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:35:46AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-04-21 10:26, Erik Skultety wrote:
Hi, first of all, if this list is not the right one for this kind of request, please point me to the right direction where it would be.
I'd like to request adding a 'latest' or even '15' (any major release version) named symlink to the HTTP OS tree [1] as both to be consistent in how Leap containers are tagged [2] as well as helping other projects/consumers e.g. libosinfo [3] or our libvirt-ci [4] tool etc. to always conveniently track the latest minor release of Leap. The use case of most of these upstream communities is to always consume the latest contents to find regressions and compatibility issues early, and it poses some (not completely negligible) burden for all these communities to manually flip all URLs to flip the Leap release they track to the latest minor when it's released. So, I'm kindly asking whether such a thing could be considered.
How about
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-current/
or
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-stable/
?
Both point to 15.4 currently.
What happens with these when Leap 16 is out?
There is not going to be Leap 16.
I don't know what there will be, but something very different. Not upgradeable, I think. Should have a different name.
That's not the point though. The point is there's going to be something and I'm curious what the expected outcome in terms of the URLs or distro vendor support for the current release might be in that case? Ultimately that is the reason why I even asked for the 'latest' symlinks in the first place.
AFAIK it is impossible to decide what to do if it is not known what distro will be there and how will it be upgraded and what servers it needs. Maybe it doesn't use repos at all. Certainly nothing a link change can handle. It is impossible, AFAIK, to upgrade a 15.5 Leap machine to whatever come next. Not viable to add a link to the server. The people going from 15.5 to whatever comes next have to read a lot of documentation (that doesn't exist yet) and install fresh something new in some way yet to be invented. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)