Bugzilla – Bug 578888
webpin does not search main repos
Last modified: 2011-05-25 18:16:13 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091222 SUSE/3.5.7-1.1 Firefox/3.5.7 webpin does not function, you can input some matching keys as example "Vuze" no search runs after start the webpin. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing
Well, this is a never ending story. Webpin doesn't work for a non-stable releases, because such releases don't have their database on webping server yet. A feature request might be to handle such situation by querying in FACTORY instead in STABLE release repositories. 1.) Find out the release is not stable yet 2.) Use openSUSE_FACTORY instead of openSUSE_%VERSION 3.) Make this an optional and community-maintained package (also by moving it to sourceforge, gitorious ...)
11.3 has been declared stable some weeks ago, and webpin still does not work.
Online webpin can't find anything 11.3 related either. (online webpin is here: http://packages.opensuse-community.org)
Let me update this and make it relevant. Webpin (from YaST and online now finds packages in the Update repo and in Packman, but not in the main repos. Try searching for "k3b". I am also changing the summary accordingly.
While I can find packages in the online webpin as per comment #3 (for instance gramps or dvdrip) I can not with yast2 webpin_package_search, although in the help it states: "It searches within all known openSUSE build-service and openSUSE community repositories." openSUSE 11.4 RC1 yast2-packager-webpin-2.20.15-2.1.i586
The reason for yast2_webpin is that openSUSE 11.4 still hasn't been released yet. yast2_webpin uses /etc/SuSE-release to determine the current openSUSE version and uses that version in the Webpin API search. Unfortunately Webpin doesn't support 11.4 yet, we would have to use Factory. The problem is: When to switch from factory to openSUSE_%VERSION?
Hmm, the web interface (see comment #3) allows for different releases, wouldn't it make sense to add that capabiltiy to the yast version as well ? Often people just want to find a certain package, and, if possible, install an available version even if it's not the most actual release's.
Webpin maybe not work because of fact, that http://packages.opensuse-community.org site is NOT accessible!
According bug#678754 , WebPin is dead, but there will be a replacement.