On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
Well, we never had metadata/repodata for the mozilla project dirs, but it actually makes sense to change this in my opinion.
Well, time to make a Yum resources page. Or just a sources page (or do we need to call it repositories?)
I guess it's something for the http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories page, or a more generic "Package repositories for SUSE Linux" page. (metadata/repodata/yum (however you like to call them) repos are supported by the latests YaST, that's in 10.0).
I am thinking about how to do the fact that it is on mirrors and might be different on each one. This is what stpped me from adding the 'normal' sources in a better way.
As long as we create the metadata for the mozilla project tree (which hopefully will happen soon), the metadata will be the same on every mirror.
I am still not happy with the word "repositories" and am thinking of a page: YaST_sources (To be sure, is it Yast, YaST or YAST?) What are your opnions on the word "repositories"? The reason I like "Source" better is because it is used in Yast and will be less confusing for the beginner if only one word is used.
Actually repository is the correct word for YaST "sources". Calling them sources is a bit ambiguous. Quoting http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=repository - a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored I guess that's the perfect description for the thing we are talking about ;) Regards Christoph