11.4 RC1 - can’t install libxine1-codec
Have I understood the system in the right way?
The different mirrors (like the ones on unixheads.com, jacobs-university.de, …)
are listed under:
packman.links2linux.de/prefs
And on all of them are now two repositories for the current development/factory version (now: openSUSE 11.4) under
?
puzzled
pistazienfresser
(Martin)
I think it is part of the planned re-organising of the packman sites. One of the factory sites has the ‘esential’ branding and the other is just shown as standard ‘factory’.
I couldn’t see an openSUSE Factory repo listed on that packman page you referenced?
I my opinion it delivers the first part of the URLs of the (pairs of) Packman repositories.
…]
Preferred mirror:
http://packman.inode.at/
http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/
http://packman.jacobs-university.de/
Index of /packman
Index of /packman
Index of /pub/linux/misc/packman/
http://packman.unixheads.com/
http://ftp.gts.lug.ro/packman/
http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Packman/
…]
(OR-> not all together)
in addition to
…suse/factory/ AND …suse/Factory/Essentials/
gives->
http://packman.inode.at/suse/factory/
and
http://packman.inode.at/suse/Factory/Essentials/
OR
http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/factory/
and
http://packman.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/packman/Factory/Essentials/
…
Regards
pistazienfresser
That’s as maybe, but I was drawing users’ attention to the possibilty that the packman repos you are investigating are not published (on packman’s website), and as dth2
indicated, they are probably some work in progress. Factory is not even listed on that page, but all the released openSUSE versions are. Such a thread as this, might confuse users newer to pre-release testing.
Packman’s Factory repo and its mirrors e.g. for those testing 11.4 pre-releases, are published on openSUSE Wiki. Using that repo, I had no problem installing libxine1-codec or enough other multimedia packages to facilitate testing 11.4 RC1’s sound and video.
Thanks for clarifying that my questions were questions.
I like that!
Never mind the sarcasm. In any case, the question you asked wasn’t explicitly answered, and in my opinion would need to be asked to packman’s website if genuinely seeking clarification.
Reminding the viewing users of published information in order to avoid ambiguity, is not unusual. I believe the OP is no stranger to such practices :D.
I think the cited poster is also no stranger to indirect or not so easy understandable ways of communication. 
And from my side this remark for the 17:35 GMT+1 was not irony in the way that I would have meant completely the contrary to the literally meaning.
Away from the cliffs of meta-communication:
It seems to be a question to the new structure of the packman repositories and its actual applicability has already been asked on the packman mailing list and not replay has appeared till now:
[packman] Essentials repo and reorganization](http://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2011-February/009357.html) (2011/02/01 23:50:07 GMT +1)
See you
Martin
(pistazienfresser)
New information on the major migration of the Packman repositories under:
Announcements: Packman service interruption and migration
openSUSE project mailing list: [opensuse-project] Packman service interruption and migration](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-02/msg00213.html)
Have a lot of fun,
Martin
(pistazienfresser)
Thanks for the mailing list info.
Hmm, I thought the official announcement was very short notice (just a few hours, and on a Sunday) for potentially a week’s outage. Did I miss something?
Both exists:
baseurl=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/Factory/Essentials/
baseurl=ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/factory/Essentials/
The last one has slightly less packages…
This gives you everything
Well not quite, in fact they have a long way to go to get everything populated in those repositories. No doubt they offer a lot, but not nearly everything that is available on the 11.3 repos. In fact I have had to use the 11.3 repo on my milestones, and RC installs to get the software I need.
You completely have the wrong end of the stick
sigh…
Really?
Care to explain a little?
All I said was the repositories have not been fully populated yet, so they do not give you “everything”
Which end of the proverbial stick is that? rotfl!
Hi
They are also cleaning out the cruft…
So what isn’t in the Essentials, Extra, Games or Multimedia?
MythTV for one. qt-recordmydesktop, and a few others I use on a regular basis
MythTV is a must for me, as I use it on numerous computers throughout my house.
Hi
I would say since recordmydesktop and gtk-recordmydesktop are on OBS, that you need to get on the openSUSE KDE mailing list and get them to add it. You will find that if it exists on OBS it won’t get duplicated on packman and vis-versa.