"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 -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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