On 2011-02-28 16:24:46 (-0500), todd rme <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like several packages found in packman are also found in the > contrib repo. This includes both octave and wxwidgets, at the very > least. Should packman defer to contrib when both share the same > pacakges?
Well, the idea and our "philosophy" here has always been that the Packman repositories may only depend on the OSS repository, and not have dependencies on packages that are provided in other repositories (except OSS). There is some duplication, of course, but not necessarily behind the scenes: as we are using the openSUSE Build Service (our own instance, not the one at build.opensuse.org), we can link packages from build.opensuse.org projects into our repository. As an example, we do build and provide taglib packages in our repository, but it is linked with the taglib package in the multimedia:libs project on build.opensuse.org That means that we are using the exact same sources (and patches and .spec file, ...) as there. And as soon as a change is applied to the package in multimedia:libs on build.o.o, our OBS instance at Packman rebuilds it as well. That sort of duplication will at least prevent conflicts from happening, as they result in the exact same packages (at least almost always, let's not go into the nitty gritty details of transitive dependencies and their potential side effects), with the same version, the same package names, etc... cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <[email protected]> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org
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