On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:34:39 +0100 Hans Witvliet <hwit@a-domani.nl> wrote:
But, currently there is an enormous amount** of packages that are not (yet, i hope) build for tumbleweed.
Just one example: mod_auth_kerb.
Is there a reason that the 11.3 version will not work on current Tumbleweed? For most of the stuff, 11.2 versions still work fine on 11.4. I just cleaned a machine of old "legacy" which got not updated because i distrust zypper dup and most of the time try to get away with zypper up. So people, get sane. Just try tumbleweed on a non-mission-critical machine. You'll see that it just works, even with your add-on repos that only build against 11.3 (or 11.4 soon). If you find a package that does not work anymore, we can fix that up. But building everything against tumbleweed now just seems like a giant waste of time. For FACTORY it is no different: packman is not building for FACTORY. So what did I do? I just installed the 11.3 packages. *If* FACTORY now gets a newer DirectFB (example), I just build the old one as "directfb-compat-120" which provides the old library. MPlayer & friends will continue to work in my shiny bleeding edge FACTORY installation. The same can be done for Tumbleweed, at least I'm pretty sure about that. (Greg k-h: if you need a helping hand in case such compat-packages become necessary, just ask me. I might have already built it for FACTORY if it is stuff I'm using ;) And even if it's not going to work like that: We'll never know until we tried. Talking the project to death with some theoretical potential problems is not helpful. Just use it. Try it first on not-so-important machines. Have fun -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org