Thank you for your links. From: Baenen Eric P Contr AFRL/HEC To: John , suse-security@suse.com Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 5:13:25 PM Subject: [suse-security] fresh software on suse's site Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 5:13:25 PM, you wrote:

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From my page at https://www.washingtoncreek.com:4432/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=suse-rpms

To find rpm packages...

These are all good sites... http://www.usr-local-bin.org/linux.php

http://packman.links2linux.org/

http://search.rpmseek.com/search.html?hl=com

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2

BUT... even better is APT...

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/

for SUSE 9.2 as an example, install these rpms ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/apt-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse092.rb0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/apt-devel-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse092.rb0.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/apt-libs-0.5.15cnc7-0.suse092.rb0.i586.rpm

just download them into a directory and as root at the command line type 'rpm -ivh apt*' and let rpm decide which order they need to be installed.

Then copy http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/examples/sources.list.FT... to /etc/apt as sources.list (copy the existing sources.list to something like sources.list.original just in case something goes wrong)

You might want to edit this new sources.list and remove the entries for 'kernel-of-the-day' and 'kde-unstable' (highly recommended)

Notice it will catch all the rpms from Packman, Funktronics, and many 'unofficial' packages from SUSE itself (suse-people, suse-projects)

then as root at a command line do 'apt update'

once that's done...

'apt search packagename' to find a package

'apt install packagename' (in some cases you might need to do 'apt install --no-checksig packagename' if they don't have a signature listed)

apt takes care of all the dependencies - if the package you want needs other packages they will be retrieved and everything will be installed in the proper order.

For security purposes - you can create a sources.list with just 'rpmkeys base update-drpm update-prpm update security-prpm security' or even just 'rpmkeys base security-prpm security' and then create a cronjob for root that does an 'apt upgrade' each night.

APT will become your best friend for finding packages, installing packages and keeping packages current.

Eric

Eric Baenen Program Manager - Scientific Network Environments General Dynamics - Advanced Information Systems

Phone: 937-255-8180 FAX: 937-255-8845 2255 H Street (AFRL/HEC) Area B Bldg 248 Rm 108 Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433

-----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:isofroni@cc.uoi.gr] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:30 AM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] fresh software on suse's site

Hi all

I am wondering if suse maintains in a rpm mode all the new software that is being created.

For example the new php 4.10, mysql 4.11

thanks in advance.