Den 16. nov. 2010 12:03, skrev Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
Hi
there is this problem, that Factory is sometimes broken but it would be nice if people had a safer way to test new software even between milestone-releases (which are manual factory-snaphots).
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It is about creating a snapshot of Factory whenever it passes all basic automated tests (aka critical path) - preferably with minimal human intervention (aka hard work) needed. I have much of the automated testing done, so what is missing is a way to trigger+do the snapshotting.
Do I understand you right that Factory iso sometimes are broken and should undergo a better QA testing on each build before being published?
I.e comparing the current builds for Milestone-3 with Factory, we have
openSUSE-NET-Build0845-x86_64.iso 08-Nov-2010 21:42 161M http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4-Milestone3/iso/
openSUSE-NET-x86_64-Build0876-Media.iso 18-Nov-2010 17:57 161M http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
By the way, I've found myself soon on the latest Factory iso, or rather using online update to Factory with 'zypper', even if I started out with the latest Milestone distribution. This to find out if issues are solved before reporting new bugs or to test fixes after reporting bugs.
A question aside, after using 'zypper up' first: Why can thereafter 'zypper dup' suggest to downgrade some packages with the same repositories available? I thought that 'zypper dup' should upgrade at least to the same or newer versions than 'zypper up'.
Terje J. Hanssen