Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 15:32 UTC (Sun) by anandrajan (guest, #146)
In reply to: Mageia - a Mandriva fork by jengelh
Parent article: Mageia - a Mandriva fork

I have about 20 opensuse repositories enabled at the moment and a quick check reveals that I need most of them. Besides the usual 6 (or 7) I have many opensuse build service repositories (OBS) enabled: Education, Banshee, Mozilla, OpenOffice, GNOME 2.20, KDE 4.5, KDE Extra, KDE:Updated Apps, XFCE and Java. Since OBS regularly updates all the apps, I find it very useful. I have zypper/YaST set up to update to the new versions once a week.

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 16:01 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (4 responses)

Sounds pretty much like you wanted Factory in the first place.

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 16:38 UTC (Sun) by anandrajan (guest, #146) [Link] (3 responses)

Factory tends to break things too much to my liking. Also, I felt that if I ran Factory, I should switch to fedora which I tried but it didn't work out - hence the mix of some reliable OBS repositories along with the usual basic 7.

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 16:49 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (2 responses)

But in essence, factory is composed of the submissions from develprojects like the ones you have.

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 21:48 UTC (Sun) by anandrajan (guest, #146) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't need all of the updated packages in Factory. The instability problems I mentioned earlier stem from using the latest packages in Factory for everything. By using only certain OBS repositories, I can *automatically* update every package without too many worries. For example, right now I have GNOME:STABLE:2.30 and GNOME Apps disabled - based on some bad experiences - and it'll probably remain that way until the next version of opensuse (assuming there's one). Essentially, I act as a repository filter - bad experiences from certain repositories end up getting those repositories voted down (with priorities assigned values over 100) and then eventually disabled if necessary.

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 20, 2010 5:25 UTC (Mon) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539) [Link]

In Debian, you have the possibility to use backports. While probably not that cutting-edge as Factory, you can get a stable system and some fresh applications on top of it.

I'd imagine that something like this might be an optimal use for gentoo, wouldn't it?

Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 23, 2010 15:34 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link]

I completely agree with you. I have 21 enabled. And have no desire to run factory.

I want gcc 4.5, I want KDE 4.5, I need the science, Education repos, libdvdcss has its own repo for some reason, I have a couple OBS repos from people who do research in the same area as me and keep the software up to date. It quickly adds up.