On Oct 16, Volker Kuhlmann
I mirror the updates from ibiblio.org and it has no short symlinks to the real names either. I was under the impression that SuSE discontinued this 8.3 frontalobotomy some while ago, obviously not quite. There's no patch description there (yet). The latest fou4s beta (http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/beta/) contains support for such patch descriptions. I find manually adding any new packages to a simple list and using rpm -UvhF `cat list` is very much faster and more reliable. I thought so some time ago (and wrote fou4s). I don't think that this really works - having 10 machines with 4 different suse versions may not seem to be so much, but it is a lot of work to keep them up to date without help. Patch descriptions are not always correct or up to date which is very bad, but this is not very often and normally rather quickly fixed. With Lars' gpd.sh plus fou4s you could even work without them, but it is not so comfortable (e.g. know why the patch was put on ftp).
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