Am Dienstag, 3. November 2009 15:53:47 schrieb Istvan Gabor:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I suspect that the 10.3 repositories have been deleted with 10.3 reaching EOL, but I thought I would get the official word. So what's the story? Are the 10.3 build service repositories gone for good or have they been moved to another location in the old repositories directory like 9.3-10.2?
Adrian has disabled the 10.3 repos from all projects (a bit early). The projects can readd them from the DISCONTINURD branch.
(We basically also need the build power as we lack some powerful buildhosts currently.)
10.3 lives another week only, October 31st is the last day of maintenance.
Ciao, Marcus
This means that all the packages built for 10.3 that were stored at download.opensuse.org/repositories/ were removed and will not be available anymore anywhere.
If yes, it is very sad. I understand that because of EOL no new packages will be built but do not see why had to remove all those great and working packages.
Making a complete backup of the repository is not easy for everyone.
Futhermore I am satisfied with 10.3 and I would not be reluctant to upgrade if there was not that KDE4 issue with the 11.x versions. I do not understand either why one should upgrade if his system works well, and take the risk that something will be broken in the new system. (Eg. I could not make vpnclient/ssh work in 11.1 on the same hardware).
First of all, space on the buildservice is limited, so it is not possible to keep all packages on there. Mirrors could not delete packages not available on the obs anymore, but that's not up to openSUSE. OpenSUSE takes care of the official packages and cannot search the obs for packages to keep as well, since the search itself would already consume time and deciding which ones to keep and which ones not even more so. Because of the limited space available, some repos do not even include debuginfo packages because they would take too much space. Second, those packages were never official, so there quality can differ. On top of that they are now unmaintained which lowers their potential quality even further. If there are security fixes those packages are not updated, yet users might continue using them because they are still available and suffer from the consequences which would then fall back on openSUSE. The reason why openSUSE wants you to move to the next version is not to make money, but to save money, which might come down to the same thing, i.e. make best use of your limited resources. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org