On Friday 21 August 2009 09:15:50 Basil Chupin wrote:
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 21.08.2009 07:08, schrieb Basil Chupin:
The "fix" appears to have been installed earlier today via the auto update of zypper. However, I had to manually install the x.23 version of TB as YaST and zypper did not see any upgrades to TB x.22.
As you gone back to the original openSUSE packages zypp decided not to offer you the updates which would have changed the vendor to buildservice. (is my guess)
You know, this plethora of repositories required to run openSUSE and to also keep being part of the "testing community" is really the Achilles Heel (or Hell?) of openSUSE.
The Factory, the Build Service, the Community, the KDE:KDE4:/, the ..../Desktop, etc. and etc. repositories are really a big pain in the rearend.
I have always been (since 1986) a person who keeps his OS (any OS) at the "bleeding edge" of development but the recent development in oS have got me really scratching my head as to which repositories I need to be using.
It's not simply a matter of saying to me - and to others - "Just stay with the repos. when you installed a/the release version of oS" -- but this will not get 'you' the feedback re the OS which is what oS is all about.
Without inferring any suggestion of "His **** is bigger than your ****", I recently installed a daily build of Kubuntu 9.10 (9.10 is work-in-progress as you would know). When I boot it up, I (may) get a message showing that there are updates available. I do not need to look at repos. or alter them (?so far). When there are updates/upgrades I do not have to have to make decisions (based more guesswork than understanding) to resolve dependencies -- like I now get in oS re the application k3b (because of KDE4.3 vs KDE3 versions). And why are these dependency hassles exist in oS? (because of the plethora of repos existing for oS?)
If you compare with Kubunt 9.10, then you should use the Factory version. Install milestone 5 of openSUSE 11.2 and update with zypper dup - just one (or two) repositories that you need, nothing more. But if you want to update some single applications on your 11.1, you have to do it as you described. Do you see a better alternative? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126