On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:

* James Knott (james.knott@rogers.com) [20110325 02:46]:

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Is there a repository anywhere that has the last updates for older distros?

You'll find them in the DISCONTINUED directory tree. Can't give you a repo url though as I never needed one.

Philipp

They should be at any of the End Of Life mirrors. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirrors#EOL_Mirrors I've only ever used: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/ Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Bob Rea wrote:

On Friday 25 March 2011 14:35:01 Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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* James Knott (james.knott@rogers.com) [20110325 02:46]:

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Is there a repository anywhere that has the last updates for older distros?

You'll find them in the DISCONTINUED directory tree. Can't give you a repo url though as I never needed one.

Philipp

They should be at any of the End Of Life mirrors.

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirrors#EOL_Mirrors

I've only ever used: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/

Greg

I am still in 11.0. I went to http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss... Yast replied: Unable to create repository from URL 'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss... Invalid path name component '/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss/suse/i586/http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss...

It adds the full pathname to the repo

If I use the form for yast that separates the components beginning with the / after the domain name it says Error A valid domain name consists of components separated by dots Each component contains letters, digits, and hyphens. A hyphen may not start or end a component and the last component may not begin with a digit.

A valid IP address range consists of four integers in the range 0-255 separated by dots.

If I put 134.76.12.5 as the server I get the reply above with the doubled URL

What am I missing? or what do I need to know/do

--  "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis

Bob Rea Norcross GA

Bob, I must be close to you. I'm in Technology Park. (Norcross Ga) Anyway, Evergreen has it documented for 11.1: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen#How_to_activate The basic thing is: zypper ar URL PRETTYNAME with URLs of: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/ ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.1/ You should be able to do the same, but change out 11.1 for 11.0 I assume. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Friday 25 March 2011 22:35:24 Greg Freemyer wrote:

I must be close to you. I'm in Technology Park. (Norcross Ga)

Small world. We did business with a company there a few years ago. Spent lots of time there. Not nuch to do in Norcross, IIRC. At least if you are an uninitiated visitor. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM, James Knott wrote:

Philipp Thomas wrote:

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* James Knott (james.knott@rogers.com) [20110325 02:46]:

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Is there a repository anywhere that has the last updates for older distros?

You'll find them in the DISCONTINUED directory tree. Can't give you a repo url though as I never needed one.

Philipp

It's just something I may need occasionally, as I've reverted my ThinkPad to 11.0 (it's good to be home again <g>) and I have a couple of other computers running it.  I may try 11.1, but even then, it's not long before support ends for it.  With all the problems I experienced in 11.3 and 11.4, I doubt I'll be moving to either of them.  Neither 11.3 nor 11.4 were usable on my ThinkPad and 11.4 also had issues on an old Compaq.

For 11.1, the support is from the Evergreen team only at this point. I'd say it's unknown how long they will support it. But it could be another year or two. I don't recall any discussion about that yet as relates to 11.1 Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Adding Wolfgang in cc: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:31 PM, James Knott wrote:

Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I'd say it's unknown how long they will support it.  But it could be another year or two.  I don't recall any discussion about that yet as relates to 11.1

What'd be nice is an up to date ISO file, with all the latest updates.

I seriously doubt that is in the cards from the current Evergreen team. But if you or anyone else wants to build it, I suspect a way can be found to host it. I've never done it, but I understand OBS can be used to build a ISO, so it is at least theoretically possible it could be done via OBS. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 15:10 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 21:46 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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Hans Witvliet wrote:

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For those who are not on the announcement list.

With respect to the complainers that were missing their 11.1-stuff: Be warned that after end-of-life stuff might disappear.

Is there a repository anywhere that has the last updates for older distros?

After a version gets EOL, all relevant rpm's are removed from the OBS after a couple of months. Considering the amount of space one can hardly expect that everything is kept. Last time i checked, it was about 300GB for all the packages (system + home) within a release. The big question is how much older systems you want to keep, and for how long...

You can do it yourself, as i don't think that the official mirrors keep them.

Sorry, should read more carefully. Thought you were looking for the OBS-packages, these will be gone. Official updates are kept for quite some time. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 26/03/11 19:44, Linda Walsh wrote:

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From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:meissner@suse.de] Subject: [security-announce] Advance discontinuation notice for openSUSE 11.2 Dear opensuse-security-announce subscribers and openSUSE users,

SUSE Security announces that the SUSE Security Team will stop releasing updates for openSUSE 11.2 soon. Having provided security-relevant fixes for the last two releases and two months, we will stop releasing updates after May 12th 2011.

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Not unexpected.

Does anyone know if live-update is again supported as it was to 11.2?

Is is possible to live-update directly to 11.4? That would certainly be a bonus!

Thanks!

If by live-update you mean upgrade a running system to the next distro release, yes, its been possible for the last few releases, with varying success. From 11.3 -> 11.4 seems to generally work well, via "zypper dup", on a live system. (Though its probably good to end any X sessions, and only one user logged in, and of course have plenty of backups) From what I understand this is semi-supported, obvious bugs have been fixed, corner cases (weird combinations of repos/packages) still cause problems. YMMV. If you were starting from 11.2 you probably have to go 11.2 -> 11.3 -> 11.4, not directly. If you're feeling brave and helpful, someone was asking for help testing "yast2 wagon" - gui version of zypper dup. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org