On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:25:03PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > "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?
You expect an automatically triggered upgrade to a new major distribution version to work in a reliable way? If not then this use case is pointless anyway. If someone manages to kill his system that way it does not really matter afterwards whether the dead system has an online update path for the old or for the new distribution version. > > 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, As long as there is no reliable way to upgrade distribution versions with zmd I can't see that. Robert -- Robert Schiele Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
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