On Monday 12 September 2005 08:37, houghi wrote: <snip> > This is getting very confusing. I personally like the Yast Repositories > better an easier to use: > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
Hi Houghi, It /is/ confusing to me sometimes, too, so don't feel bad. The way I've organized it in my head and on on my systems is YaST handles "official" SUSE packages, including the unsupported supplementary sources and security updates, and I use apt/synaptic to handle everything else. This wasn't planned, it was just a natural progression from YaST (pre-installed, of course) to later integrating apt into my routine. > How are these related? Is the above the same as Guru, or are there > differences? > In apt there are other suser-* things as well. Can they be used as > external Yast repositories or not? I can't answer this because I still "cherry pick" rpms at Guru's site and install them manually. I do this for most of the "suser-" sources. There are a lot of warnings in the apt documentation and scripts about avoiding "experimental" and "development" level packages which, purportedly, are maintained in several of the 'suser-' sources; warnings to the effect that average non-programmer / non-tinkerer users ought not include those sources lest they end up 'breaking' their systems. YaST and apt are two interfaces into the same package management system (rpm), but I think (could be wrong) the staging of the packages, server-side, is different between the two. I think YaST recognizes and will use a YaST source and, likewise, apt it's own repositories, but I don't think the two are seamlessly interchangeable. > I will be re-writing > http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories to make it > more uniform, especially the External ones. I'll be following your progress and will probably be learning from you :-) Thanks for the effort! - Carl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
