On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Remco Viëtor <[email protected]> wrote: > On samedi 29 avril 2017 10:01:43 CEST David Vincent-Jones wrote: >> Looking at the openSuse 'official' repos. I find 2 options, I was using >> the first one. >> >> Question: will there be any downside to my making the switch? Should I >> do a total un-install? >> >> * home:darix:darktable... >> >> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Adarix%3Adarktable%3 >> Amaster&package=darktable> >> >> o 2.3.0~git598.87e9b98 >> home:darix:darktable... >> >> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=home%3Adarix%3Adarktable%3 >> Astable-2.2&package=darktable> >> >> o 2.2.4~git4.af01996 > Neither of these are _official_ repositories supported by OpenSuse; see their > list of (semi)-official repositories at > https://en.opensuse.org/Package_repositories#Factory_and_Project_repositories > . And even for some there, I quote: "These are repositories available which > are not officially supported by openSUSE, but they contain useful packages > which > you should feel free to use *at your own risk*." > > The repositories you refer to are external, third party repositories that use > an infrastructure provided by OpenSuse, but OpenSuse does not guarantee > anything about the contents. That said, I've used several (a lot...) of those > without any problems, but that could have been pure chance... Both these repos are by darix, and we consider them to be the go-to darktable repos for OpenSUSE, somewhat like pmjdebruijn's PPA for ubuntu.
> Like Roman said, you should be fine just selecting the other version without a > complete uninstall first. They main problem you could run into when > downgrading > to a lower version number is a change in the database layout, but I suspect > Roman would have mentioned that. Do remember what you did, and make a backup > of the database, just in case. I did not mention anything about downgrade because we always say one thing: no downgrades are possible. ever. > Remco. Roman. > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
