On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:54:43PM +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > Hi, > > As we're getting close to the feature freeze, maybe we should finally think > about the statements below, what do you think about it? > > > *---------------------------------------- > Maybe I'm on the wrong place for this, but it might be interesting even > here: > > Let's assume the following (I think a not so uncommon scenario): > - A user installs a openSuSE Version 10.1 > - He changes the installation repositories to something like > ftp://mirror.suse.de/pub/SL-Stable/inst-source > and adds also > ftp://mirror.suse.de/pub/SL-Stable/non-oss-inst-source > > Now come's one of the trickier parts: > The upudate repo is pointing to: > ftp://mirror.suse.de/update/10.1 > > What will happen when openSUSE 10.2 get's the 'stable' Distribution an > dwill thus be linked in place of 10.1? > > ZMD will most probably install many packages from 10.2 (maybe even > wished by the user) but the link to the update repo will still point to > 10.1.
You should _never_ use those symbolic links for your installation sources but always use the version number in an explicit way. Robert -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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