(Not quite) duplicate repositories?
Following the link to "openSUSE Build Service repositories" | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ I see many almost duplicate repositories in the list, differing in name only by the trailing : in its name. Some have older, some newer dates. What is going on here? How to decide which to use? (Example attached.) Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64
On 26/06/2021 22.12, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Following the link to "openSUSE Build Service repositories" | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ I see many almost duplicate repositories in the list, differing in name only by the trailing : in its name. Some have older, some newer dates. What is going on here? How to decide which to use?
That's a question I have seen more than once, and I still don't know the answer. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 22:42:49 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 26/06/2021 22.12, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Following the link to "openSUSE Build Service repositories" | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ I see many almost duplicate repositories in the list, differing in name only by the trailing : in its name. Some have older, some newer dates. What is going on here? How to decide which to use?
That's a question I have seen more than once, and I still don't know the answer.
Fascinating! A new question to waste some time on. I chose hamradio as an example and looked. The 2015 colon version has a debian version; the 2021 version doesn't. So apart from the obvious suggestion that the newer one might be the one to use, perhaps another idea is that the one with a version for the platform you need is the one to choose? I await better-informed enlightenment.
On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 15:12 -0500, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ I see many almost duplicate repositories in the list, differing in name only by the
Following the link to "openSUSE Build Service repositories" trailing : in its name. Some have older, some newer dates. What is going on here? How to decide which to use? (Example attached.)
They are not the same or duplicate repositories. If you click the one with the trailing ':' you will that it will have child(ren) projects below it. For example, there is a top-level science project whose repository is <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/> but there are also several children projects inside science like machinelearning, HPC (which further has children projects and so on). So, if you want to access the machinelearning project's repo for packages, you will have to subscribe to: <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science:/machinelearning/>, different from the science repository (note the ':' between 'science' and '/machinelearning'). On the build service the ':' indicates children projects, for example the machinelearning project on OBS would be at: <https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/science:machinelearning>. Hope that clears up the meaning. Best wishes, -- Atri Bhattacharya Sat 26 Jun 22:59:11 CEST 2021 Sent from openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop.
On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 22:45 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 23:07:21 +0200 Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hope that clears up the meaning.
Not really, if you consider the example I happened to choose.
hamradio:debian is a child project of hamradio <https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/hamradio:debian>, so this tracks with what I said. Cheers, -- Atri Bhattacharya Sun 27 Jun 00:00:43 CEST 2021 Sent from openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop.
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