Edith Parzefall wrote:

Meeting Minutes YaST Nbg. 2007-06-19 ------------------------------------ problem with factory: repo changes extremely quickly even during update to factory, the meta data are already changing again. Talk to autobuild team what can be done to get a consistent state for the update. In the running system: download all packages before installing. During first install: server could keep older package versions a couple hours.

In fact, debian repos live like this (at least as far as my experience goes, not sure about it). That may be due to the very same fact, that they change quickly (testing, sid repos). Then, it is often possible to install packages even if the metadata are out-of-date, without running apt-get update first. Only after the package which is referenced by the out-of-date metadata gets removed, you are forced to update them. Keeping a few old versions for some time also allows to downgrade to some of previous versions very conveniently, e.g. in case the new package is too buggy to work with (which can easily happen with repos like factory or debian sid). Jano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org