Repository for openSuse 11.1 removed

English Hardware
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Hi,

I didn’t do it, but I did notice it and thought I’d ‘report’ it here…

Actually I am not sure who is responsible since the readme at the repo url
says that the site is provided by nVidia as a courtest to Novell and that
Novell/community are responsible for the builds/contents.

The url I am referring to is:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse

There is now only the 11.2 and 11.3 repositories.

I also haven’t seen any announcement from the community, Novell or nVidia
that the repo for 11.1 would be going away/is now gone.

It would be nice to have it back - especially since I haven’t had the issues
being seen with the newer nvidia drivers on the newer KDE SC 4.5+. I am
currently running 260.19.29 on KDE 4.4.4.

Cheers,

Ron

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Hi,

The support for the 11.1 expired in fall if I recall. So, no more repos available since then.

Search the forum, you should find the news about it.

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Hi
I’ve asked my Novell contacts who actually looks after the Nvidia ones.

As DaaX pointed out it’s all E.O.L. but one could argue that the Evergreen contributors should look at maintaining it;
openSUSE:Evergreen - openSUSE

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I heard about this project but didn’t know what it was.

Thanks for the info malcolmlewis. :slight_smile:

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On 02/14/2011 10:17 PM, Ron Neilly wrote:
> I also haven’t seen any announcement from the community, Novell or nVidia
> that the repo for 11.1 would be going away/is now gone.

11.1, the system and its support system (repos) met their end of life
about a month ago…a fact that has been well publicized since 2009,
at least, see here:

http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_openSUSE

you may be happy to hear there is a best effort try to keep 11.1
supported, which i think means issue security patches and maybe
significant (show stopping bugs, if any) see here:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen_11.1

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

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Thanks to all for the informative replies. I probably should have upgraded
to something newer (eg 11.3) prior to the EOL of 11.1. I was actually
planning on moving up when 11.4 came out. Which I will. For now I’ll just
stop checking for updates to 11.1.

Cheers,

Ron

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I had a similar problem in 2009 when support for opensuse-10.3 was stopped and I was ina fix. I got help in this forum and was directed to
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/oss.non-oss,debug
I wonder if a similar site (with 11.1 instead of 10.3) still exists.
I hope you best of luck.
P.Rudra.

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Thanks. I went to the url you kindly provided and got a 404/Object Not Found
error - not surprising since the url resolves to a directory containing the
opensuse 10.3 repository.

But to answer your question and satisfy my curiostiy I changed the url from
‘/10.3/’ to ‘/11.1/’ and sure enough they are still hosting the oss and non-
oss repositories for opensuse 11.1.

Of course it was also mentioned in this thread that there is an actual
project devoted to maintaining the 11.1 release for a longer period of time.
The project, in case you missed it, is called Evergreen and can be found
here:

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen

(Thanks to Malcolm Lewis for the heads up on this project.)

Cheers and have fun!

Ron