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, 2021-06-26 at 15:12 -0500, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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.