Yast refers to repos by repo_? alias

Since I upgraded to 11.1 from 11.0, Yast has started referring to all
the repositories by their repo_* aliases rather than by their names.

For instance, it uses -repo_1- instead of -Main Repository (OSS)-.

I find this very confusing when I’m trying to determine which version
of a package I have installed/want to install. It didn’t do this with my
11.0 clean install.

How do I make it use the repository names again? Thanks in advance for
any help or pointers.


amarjan

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I find it too confusing (it is confusing only if You got many
repositories). In Gnome it’s a lot easier as it shows normal names, i
assume then that You got KDE ? Just use yast2 gnome version (Yuo need to
set it up in YaST sysconfig if i’m not wrong) System–>>YaST2–>>GUI–>>
wanted gui. Try that, if you don’t like then just reverse it.


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I too hate this change. I spent an hour trying to work out why I
couldn’t see anything listed from the packman repo in Yast 2 then
realised it was showing as “pm”

Can the developers please change it back to how it used to be?


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For what it is worth, I’m also annoyed by this change… but too lazy to
file a bug/feature report.


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It is a pain but you can rename your repos in YaST>Software>Software
Repositories>Edit

I also find that if you don’t uncheck the remain subscribed box when
using 1-click it adds the repo again using a different name:\


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I found the openSUSE bugzilla and there’s a bug report for this problem
at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456099 for the Qt
interface. It seems the problem will be fixed.

nzlbob23, thanks, I’ll try renaming the repositories. I noticed that a
new repository I added through a .ymp file is referred to by the full
name rather than by the repo_? alias.


amarjan

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