Bug 1146085 – tumbleweed does not understand /history URL as installation source

Bug 1146085 - tumbleweed does not understand /history URL as installation source


Summary:	tumbleweed does not understand /history URL as installation source

Status:	REOPENED

Classification:	openSUSE
Product:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Basesystem
Version:	Current
Hardware:	x86-64 Linux

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assigned To:	Jimmy Berry
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Reported:	2019-08-19 08:11 UTC by Olaf Hering
Modified:	2020-09-21 13:40 UTC (History)
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Description Olaf Hering 2019-08-19 08:11:28 UTC

If a system is installed from http://download.opensuse.org/history/ instead of http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/, tumbleweed-cli is unable to maintain repositories.
Apparently it expects to be installed from the ever-changing tree, instead of the fixed snapshot that does not change (until it disappears).

After install baseurl= will be identical to the install= URL, which is something like  http://download.opensuse.org/history/20190810/tumbleweed/repo/oss
There is no '$snapshotVersion' in the URL.

Comment 1 Marco Strigl 2020-09-21 08:29:02 UTC

Is this still an issue?
I am not sure what I can do to fix this bug...

Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2020-09-21 09:29:04 UTC

Still broken, with 20200917 as install= URL.

Comment 3 Dominique Leuenberger 2020-09-21 11:58:19 UTC

IMHO, this is far out of what TW is supposedly doing.

The installer will take whatever URL you pass it. /history is an attempt to help people slowing down the progress and stick to a snapshot and still allow to install packages.

Installing from a specific /history provided snapshot and expecting things to 'just work out' is unrealistic.

Comment 4 Olaf Hering 2020-09-21 13:22:33 UTC

There is an obvious difference between 'TW' and 'tumbleweed.rpm'.

The latter can easily detect what the current repo is. Someone familiar with the tool just has to fix it.