[Spacewalk-list] difference between SUSE repositories

[Michael Calmer]

Hi

Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2017, 05:31:12 schrieb Haupt, Torsten:
> Hey,
> 
> what is the difference between the SUSE repositories
> 
>                
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk/
> 
> and
> 
>                
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/
> 
> (note the colon at the end of the second link)
> The first link contains current SUSE distributions. The second link contains
> spacewalk versions and in subfolders the current SUSE distributions.

The colon (:) is the seperator for projects in the Open Build Service. 

"systemsmanagement:spacewalk" is a project while 
"systemsmanagement:spacewalk:" is only a part of the proect. Inside you find 
all sub-projects like 2.7. The full spacewalk 2.7 project is

  "systemsmanagement:spacewalk:2.7"

or as download URL

  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.7/

Inside of a project you can define to build the source for multiple 
distributions. For the download URL you see inside of a project all the 
distributions where this package got build from, like "openSUSE_Tumbleweed" or
"SLE_12_SP3" . Inside of the distribution you have the repo-md repository for 
this project and distribution.
 
> The release note for spacewalk 2.7 mentions the link with the colon. But can
> I use the other link too?

"systemsmanagement:spacewalk" is "master" (from time to time updated). So you 
will find 2.8 versions of the packages there. But this is currently pre-alpha. 
I would not use it.

-- 
Regards

	Michael Calmer

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