On Thursday 01 June 2006 17:13, Anders Johansson wrote:
No. The packages were never in the apt repository. Other people made an apt repository that *pointed* to those packages. They can do it again. They don't need a new release of apt for that, all that's needed is to set their mirrors to point somewhere else. They used to download the packages from ftp.suse.com, now they're at opensuse.org
The packages for KDE prior the the deployment of the *ALPHA* opensuse build service and repository were indeed in the apt repository. It makes no difference to my point #1 whether the package was initially hosted at ftp.suse.com before it was copied into the apt repository. The fact is that packages used to be there, and they either aren't now or they won't be in the future. Makes no difference to point #1 *why* the packages aren't there; the fact is that the *aren't there*. Note I'm not saying this is your fault Anders, or even SuSE's fault. I'm merely stating that it is a *fact* that the packages aren't there anymore.
huh?
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makes just as much sense. One is a build service, the other is a package management tool.
If you mean apt will not work with the repositories on opensuse where packages built in the build service end up, then you are wrong. All someone has to do is create an apt repository that mirrors, indexes and references them - just like they did before
I should have been more specific. Forgive me. I meant that apt will not work with the repositories on opensuse where packages built in the build service end up. That fact that someone *may* create an apt repository based on those packages at some unknown time and place in the universe is immaterial. The fact is as of right now, *apt will not work with the repositories on opensuse where packages built in the build service end up* (which is what I meant originally, even if I said it poorly)!
4. An as-yet-unreleased future version of apt4suse might work with the opensuse build service.
see above
Indeed, see above.
5. Using packages from the opensuse build service will will tie you to the bugs and features of the version of KDE initially released with the version of suse (i.e. 10.1 users will be stuck with KDE 3.5.1, even though three additional bugfix, translation and new feature releases will have been released by this August--3.5.4 gets tagged at the end of July).
huh? 3.5.3 is already there.
The opensuse build service doesn't build packages against 3.5.3. It builds them against 3.5.1 (for suse 10.1). So all the packages it makes are subject to all the bugs in kdelibs 3.5.1, even though those bugs may be fixed in kdelibs from 3.5[.2|.3|.4|.n]. So you might upgrade KDE to 3.5.3, but your non-kde-core applications will be compiled for kdelibs 3.5.1, as that is what was released originally with 10.1. Regards, Mark -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com