April 2009 - openSUSE Software Management

[softwaremgmt] assign lower priority to newly added repositories
by Elmar Stellnberger 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

User added repositories should have a lower priority than the core distro repos (change request). Usually these repositories contain additional software not available anywhere else but are less trustworthy than the core distro packages. f.i. I do not want packages to be installed from Packman if they are available in the core distro as well. If there are certain packages that should rather be taken from Packman than OpenSuse-OSS I wanna select them manually. Even worse giving newly added repos a higher priority by default will make all those temporarily added repos that just were intended to install a single package or a few override the core distro packages. The security implications are really just too bad. So even if someone would like Packman to have a higher priority than the core distro packages that should not automatically be applied to all temporarily added repos. Even worse some users will desire to add Suse11.0-repos to a Suse 11.1 installation, because a couple of packages are not available in 11.1 as it is not a major release. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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[softwaremgmt] elder suse distros
by Elmar Stellnberger 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Where can I find elder versions of Opensuse? http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ contains 10.2 as oldest distro, but I need 9.3. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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[softwaremgmt] host elder opensuse distros
by Elmar Stellnberger 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ should host elder releases of OpenSuse then 10.0 i.e. 9.3, at best also 7.3, 8.1 A lot of legacy apps will not run or compile under newer versions. At worst f.i. my M3-compiler needs to bootstrap itself so that there needs to be a way to run binaries of 7.3 / 9.3. There is no way to do this with newer distros since the old binaries will segfault. It should not be a great deal to host elder Opensuse versions, should it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help(a)opensuse.org

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