Hi,
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
In case you didn't notice (yet) and while an announcement of the
maintainer(s) would have been nice ;)...
The KDE supplementary repository is now empty and has been moved to the
Build Service:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/README
Seconded your protest & request for better transparency.
This was really an is-no-good happening. The biggest ever.
Note, if you're using smart:
- - on 10.0:
smart channel --add \
http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/KDE:KDE3.repo
- - on 10.1:
smart channel --add \
http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.1/KDE:KDE3.repo
There's also a backports repository, where popular KDE applications are
built against the stock KDE version as shipped with 10.0 or 10.1,
respectively.
For APT the old directories are simply gone, and the new directories still
are not configured, plus: it IS NOT TRANSPARENT ENOUGH FOR ME TO DO IT!
So: PROTEST against this unconcious behaviour!
I must admit: not the first time (SUSE staff is always living on clouds
it seems, and in general this is a good thing), but with the biggest
destroyment this time!
That's a very nice move, but I'd like to make a couple of remarks
nevertheless:
- - is there already feedback from FTP admins for mirrors ?
No. Surprise only.
A lot of people are using that repository to use the latest KDE, and
there was a very decent mirror infrastructure available (e.g. skynet,
belnet, several mirrors in Germany, ...), but we're starting at 0 at the
moment :\
Yes. Totally zeroed-out by an unconscious administrative act.
- - please announce such stuff beforehand
Not enough; those "switch-movers" at SUSE have to learn other matters
before they should get allowed to touch the switch: "vision" the situation
at the remote sides.
I know Adrian has written 2 or 3 times that he wants to move suppl. KDE
to the BS, but what you guys think is trivial and not important is
actually being used by a vast number of SUSE Linux users out there.
Some announcement, e.g. a week beforehand + published on the
opensuse.org frontpage and feed, would have been desirable, to say the
least ;)
The german word for such handicapped professionals is "Stuemper".
PROTEST!
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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