Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025, 19:59:04 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Luigi Baldoni: > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM > From: "Henne Vogelsang" <[email protected]> > > > What is it you are missing? Using branch in the PMBS UI? > > If so, what am I doing wrong here? > > `$ osc -A https://pmbs-api.links2linux.de linkpac > openSUSE.org:openSUSE:Leap:16.0 ffmpeg-7 home:Aloysius:branches:Essentials > > `Server returned an error: HTTP Error 404: remote error package 'ffmpeg-7' > does not exist in project 'openSUSE Leap 16.0'` `remote error: package > 'ffmpeg-7' does not exist in project 'openSUSE Leap 16.0'` > > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM > > From: "Eric Schirra" <[email protected]> > > > > Please don't do that. I absolutely advise against it, unless it's > > absolutely necessary. The git story is terrible. It doesn't really work. > > For me as a packager, it offers absolutely no added value. It just seems > > to involve a lot more effort. There is no useful documentation. I tried > > it two or three times according to the documentation, but I kept getting > > error messages. > I share your frustration and I've experienced the same problems. So far I've > been uploading my changes via web. But I see no alternative if regular > links can't be created. I've tried adding a <scmsync> tag to an empty > package, but it's not (yet?) available on PMBS. > > I don't understand the point of it at all. > > From what I've been told, it simplifies things SUSE-side.
LOL The joke was good. Regards Eric _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
