Benji Weber wrote:
> 2009/1/13 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <[email protected]>:
>> A solution worth to explore is to start using variables like $releasever
>> in the .repo files.
>>
>> So repos with 11.1 would automaitcally be 11.2 afterwards. Of course
>> still there is the need to check that those repos are valid.
> 
> Another possibility would be on upgrade to check for a file in each
> repository that would provide the URI of the equivalent repository in
> the new distro version.

That would require to initialize the repository at first and then
download an optional file from there, then delete the repository again
and register a new one provided by that file. Which also means we would
have to setup the network before all this.

> This could allow the repository publisher to provide an upgrade path
> for their repository without being tied to a specific URI format,
> moving to alternative locations, consolodation of multiple
> repositories into one and so on.

Anyway, these ideas could be also used for a running system as well
(zypper, YaST repositories, ...).

Lukas

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