On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 7:38 AM David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 10/16/22 16:52, Felix Miata wrote:
Not officially deprecated, but nothing directly replaces it. No one who's tried has been able to come up with a fix. You can use opi if the version searched is of no import. You can visithttp://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.4/sle/x86_64/ and see what versions are available from the Leap kernel's update channel.
God I miss the old functional webpin that covered everything, distro, updates, all repos (including home)
It's not just that the search doesn't show everything for all platforms. It is also that so many packages are built for only a subset of SUSE/openSUSE current releases. It cannot fathom how a build service does not try to build for current releases. I know that user repositories are perhaps different. I am referring to primary package repositories. I am guessing if the package is not in the list of critical/core packages, even though it is in perhaps the same repository as critical/core packages, it might not be built. I get the resources issue. I wonder how many packages have been branched by users only because they wanted it to be built for their platform? I know that I have done this. Is there a good description of the steps one should follow to branch a package, and then correctly notify the original maintainer that it can be built for a platform they don't have enabled? Preferable a description for doing this via the web interface to OBS? This should be at the level of the occasional OBS user. I would think that this information would result in quite a number of branched packages being merged back with the main package. Perhaps a link to this information on the web page of a branched package? Up where the 'Links to" information is.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
-- Roger Oberholtzer