On 12 February 2017 at 11:59, Olaf Hering
Am 11. Februar 2017 23:04:33 MEZ schrieb Bjoern Voigt
: Zypper calculates 95 problems on my main PC.
This sort of setup should be handled with repo priorities. First home, then Mozilla, then Packman, then Tumbleweed (or whatever you want the stacking to be). Then a simple 'zypper dup' would give a consistent state. This will cover eventual ABI changes within a repo. This requires that each repo is clean and carries no duplicated package, which might be the case in badly maintained repos.
Olaf, your advice only holds true if you trust the admin of the home repo more than the admin of Mozilla and the admin for Packman more than the admins of Tumbleweed. As repo prios automatically switch any and all packages to the repo of highest priority, unless you can assert that trust with significant confidence, the advice to use repos is stupid. I would only recommend priorities with that huge "caveat emptor" attached - Users of priorities choose to trust these repositories more than the official openSUSE Project and should understand that they are fully responsible for anything bad that happens to their machine as a result. I can count the people who's home repo I would trust to that degree on one hand, and even then I'd discuss with them a better solution than using their home repo. Mozilla, sure, MAYBE, would be the one repo in your list that I would consider given a higher priority for, because Wolfgang knows what he's doing and he's earned that trust and shown his capability to maintainer repositories properly with Evergreen. But packman, seriously? I hate to be so overly critical but the administration of Packman has been a joke for years, with terrible ill informed decisions made by the maintainers. While packman is slowly improving (and I know I have you to partially thank for that), this gentlemens 95 errors are symptomatic of the problems Packman has created and has only recently started to address. I think it's a long while before I'll trust Packman to the level you're suggesting here. Proper quality controls, review processes, and clear policies about what Packman will include and not, are all needed to improve Packmans credibility in this area. Until then, please do not recommend priorities, or if you do, please make sure you fully explain how the priorities allow repository maintainers control over what packages are on your system and the risks that come with it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org