Bug 223598

Summary: Missing installation sources in YaST
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 Reporter: Marcel Hilzinger <marcel>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
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Description Marcel Hilzinger 2006-11-24 12:12:57 UTC 
When adding a new installation source without internet connection in YaST, I see only the following points:

CD
DVD
Lokales Verzeichnis
Package Directory
URL angeben

However with internet connection up I see also: SLP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMB/CIFS, NFS.

Each source should be selectable always I suppose.
Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2006-11-27 15:22:20 UTC 
I don't think so. If the internet is not reachable does it make sense to allow for example FTP source? It cannot be added, yast (libzypp) needs to download some files from the remote server to add it into the repository.

If there is a reason to allow network sources without network connection then reopen.
Comment 2 Marcel Hilzinger 2006-11-27 15:32:33 UTC 
Maybe for adding a new source it's not neccessary, but for editing sources YaST must show all of them. See also bug #223893.
Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2006-12-04 20:55:21 UTC 
What about http://localhost or ftp://localhost?

Those can be useful if someone wants to use delta RPMs he locally mirrored (or received via "gym-shoe lan" on CD ;-)

When adding this as local directory, delta RPMs won't be used AFAIK, so adding the local directory is not a solution.

If you think this is a too exotic usecase, just close this bug again.
(I don't think it's exotic, otherwise I wouldn't have written this ;-)
Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2007-02-12 08:08:27 UTC 
"http://localhost" URL or similar might be useful, but it is still possible to use 
general option "Specify URL" which accepts any URL (you can use e.g. a FTP source even when the network types are not offered).

The user who is able to setup a local service should be able to use the general option... :-)