On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 00:52 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:37:48 Dave Howorth wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:40 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: > > > The source is available on download.opensuse.org > > > > Yes, I have > > <http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse/> > > in my list of repositories, but YaST still says that no source is > > available. And I still don't know what I'm missing! > > Oh, the yast thing is effectively disabled. From looking at the yast source, > it looks like a work in progress, I guess they just forgot to remove the GUI > element. > > Just download the src.rpm manually, if you still want to analyse this issue > further
I gave this a new title, for clarity. For the benefit of anybody else following who also doesn't understand, here's what I believe: (1) The starting point is that YaST in 9.3 had a column labelled source with checkboxes and clicking on them was the best method to install sources. (2) This does not work in 10.2. The column labelled source is still there but there is no mechanism in the underlying library to actually install source. YaST help does not document this or the regression. (3) There is a bug filed <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264669>, which is not very encouraging. In particular, comment #5 is not very helpful, misunderstanding as it does the situation of the bug reporter. The wiki clearly says: Src-oss Source RPMs. Advanced users only. Version 10.2 http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse/ So the misunderstanding is not that of the person who reported the bug (it also confused me and Rajko and probably others too). Certainly, functionality that was present and working in the product but not in subsequent versions is a bug IMHO. What Stefan Hundhammer said in the bug report directly contradicts what is on the wiki. It would be nice to know what the truth is if anybody at Suse could explain it? It would also be nice to know if there are plans to replace the support for source packages in YaST that was lost after 9.3? Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
