some patches for yast2 channels

Christoph Thiel cthiel at suse.de
Sun Oct 8 14:17:40 PDT 2006


On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:

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> Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:
> > Em Sex, 2006-10-06 às 00:30 +0200, Christoph Thiel escreveu:
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> >>>   smart-yast-media.patch by Ludwig Nussel <lnussel at suse.de>
> >>>   - implements multi media support for yast2 channels
> > 
> > Very nice. Thanks!
> > 
> > The most important question: have you tested this patch marking the
> > channel as 'removable'? What happens? I don't have the complete CD set
> > with me, so I can't test it right now.
> 
> The patch is broken, don't include it.
> After getting numerous complaints, I've dropped it again from my smart
> build.
> 
> Problem is: it modifies download URLs like e.g.
> http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.0 into http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1

No, it doesn't -- you haven't used the latests patch. That one will just 
do something, if the latests digit is 1 and replace it with the media no 
that the package is on (due to package metadata). So it won't even break 
http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.1!


Best,
Christoph


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