2008/12/6 Cristian Morales Vega
I see there are still users complaining about the 1-Click links from http://opensuse-community.org/ not working (meaning they don't have full multimedia support after using them).
Yeah, I don't think the GNOME one ever worked, no-one ever tested them. I totally agree on the repository de-duping issue. This has been a problem from the beginning, and there's still no way to uniquely identify a repository based on the metadata stored in the repository. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/377568 , until this is resolved it's also difficult to solve some of the other issues you raise. Regarding which repository packages will be installed from. The handler will prefer packages from the repositories explicitly mentioned in the YMP itself over others that are present on the user's system. However, you are correct that there is currently no way to explictly specify which repository every single package comes from. Repository priorities are not supported yet since there was no support in libzypp/yast for repository priorities at the time, it should be in the future. There are a couple of things you can use in the meantime to work around some of the problems you have noticed. One possibility is to work with the package maintainers to adjust the dependencies and package naming to create something uniquely available. eg. packman-foo. Another is to use the more powerful Pattern format and in the YMP simply specify to install the Pattern instead of a package. N.B. this will not work in 11.0 due to a regression in that version of libzypp where it didn't support rpm-md patterns https://bugzilla.novell.com/419947 . I understand this is fixed in 11.1, though I haven't had time to install 11.1 yet. I'm sorry for not being more active in fixing some of these issues recently, I've had less time since starting a new job. There's lots to do, implementing something like Garratt's mockups[0], backing onto packagekit instead of suse specific tools etc. At the moment I'm watching what other distributors are going to do in this area[1], hopefully eventually we'll get something that's accepted across distributions, although outside the suse community the very concept of third party packages seems to be so hated that I'm not sure whether it will happen. __ [0] http://ux.suse.de/~garrett/public/hackweek/oneclick/mockups/ [1] http://wiki.winehq.org/TrustingThirdPartyRepositories -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org