"Dominique Leuenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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?

Good question - Stano, have we taken care of this already?

> 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.
> The same problem is with MOST external repos, as most of them also
> contain the version number in the path.
>
> Could there something be implemented to have it point to a URL like:
> ftp://mirror.suse.de/update /%OSS-VERSION%, thus updating the links upon
> a relink of the stable tree?
> The same would be great for external repos of course.

Sounds usefull,

Andreas
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