Re: [opensuse] For Testing: new version of HPLIP (3.9.2)
- From: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:22:36 +0200 (CEST)
Hello,
first of all very many thanks to Raymond Wooninck!
On Apr 6 13:44 Raymond Wooninck wrote (shortened):
On 06/04/09 13:08, Rainer Klier wrote:build. I have build the packages to get feedback before I create the
request to include this in the openSUSE standard repositories.
do you want to replace the version 2.8.7 of HPLIP which is in the oss-repo?
Well, that would be the logical step forward. However I am not the
maintainer of the official openSUSE HPLIP packages. The alignment with
the official maintainer is that I would build the package and offer it
to a wider audience for testing. After some time we would validate the
feedback and see how to move forward.
See the "HPLIP version" thread on the opensuse-factory list, e.g.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-04/msg00015.html
Usually we do not provide official version upgrades for
released openSUSE versions (i.e. curently up to openSUSE 11.1)
except there are severe bugs which can only be solved
by a version upgrade.
To get version upgrades for released openSUSE versions
you would usually have to use a non-official package
repository.
For example for HPLIP use Raymond Wooninck's home project
repository.
There is some risk with non-official version upgrades
as Raymond perefectly explained in his announcement mail
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-04/msg00283.html
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... those packages are ... not thoroughly tested so that
any unexpected issue can happen.
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Using version upgrades from our official "factory" repository
for an officially released openSUSE system (i.e. curently
up to openSUSE 11.1) is the worst thing you can do.
Again see Raymond's announcement mail
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-04/msg00283.html
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Do not use FACTORY if your system is 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1.
Use the matching package for your particular system.
FACTORY is not better, it is worse when you have
openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1. Using whatever packages
from FACTORY in a openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1 system
causes crashes in arbitrary cases because you would also
need the base system from FACTORY. You can easily mess up
your openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 or 11.1 system with FACTORY updates.
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By the way, as far as I know the easiest way to mess up your
system with FACTORY updates is to simply add the FACTORY
repository via YaST. Then - as far as I know - the package
management magic in YaST may enforce a base system update
from FACTORY when you install a single application software
package from FACTORY according to what this application
software requires to have in the base system from FACTORY
so that you may get tons of additionally required packages
from FACTORY downloaded and installed.
Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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