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Dennis J. Tuchler

12 Oct 2007 12 Oct '07

18:55

A question about bug fixes: Once they are fixed, are they treated as updates and provided by Novell/SuSE? If not, how does one keep track of the bug fixes and install them? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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Cristian Rodriguez

13 Oct 13 Oct

11:19

Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:

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A question about bug fixes: Once they are fixed, are they treated as updates and provided by Novell/SuSE?

If the issue is considered Critical/Blocker or security problem it will be released via regular official online update and "zypper up" will do the trick ;) If the bug does not fall in the previous categories it will be most likely fixed in the next version (openSUSE 11, no ETA/Roadmap yet) If not, how does one keep track of

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the bug fixes and install them?

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Dennis J. Tuchler

20:14

Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

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Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:

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A question about bug fixes: Once they are fixed, are they treated as updates and provided by Novell/SuSE?

If the issue is considered Critical/Blocker or security problem it will be released via regular official online update and "zypper up" will do the trick ;)

If the bug does not fall in the previous categories it will be most likely fixed in the next version (openSUSE 11, no ETA/Roadmap yet)

If not, how does one keep track of

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the bug fixes and install them?

subscribe to the announce lists.

Thanks for your response. I guess that it is probably more sensible, on a 1-user system, not to load the SuSE-provided T'bird, F'fox and Open Office, but to get them from the publishers of those apps and install them directly. -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Joe Morris (NTM)

22:28

On 10/14/2007 04:14 AM, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Thanks for your response. I guess that it is probably more sensible, on a 1-user system, not to load the SuSE-provided T'bird, F'fox and Open Office, but to get them from the publishers of those apps and install them directly.

I sure do not understand the logic of that, but you are free to do as you please with your system. Though the generic packages may work, they will not be as polished nor as integrated with your OS as the packages built by SUSE. If you are worried that a bug fix may not make it into your package fast enough (no guarantees with the generic packages either), get the SUSE packages from the build service repositories. You get the polish and integration, and be on the bleeding edge, where fixes sometimes cause breakages in other areas, and you can contribute to make them better by testing and filing bug reports. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan

22:33

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I guess that it is probably more sensible, on a 1-user system, not to load the SuSE-provided T'bird, F'fox and Open Office, but to get them from the publishers of those apps and install them directly.

This makes *no* sense, what-so-ever. You cannot be serious! And you should not publish such drivel here where others can add to their confusion. You have been here a long time, especially to present such a lack of knowledge of the system you run. - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHEUevClSjbQz1U5oRAsvmAJ4k11YS4byQfdTGFU+PjCBSIUR6IgCfTdkm dQ71No4oYji3Tzz1J/F8bXA= =8Zbv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Bryen

22:55

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 18:33 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Dennis J. Tuchler [10-13-07 16:18]:

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I guess that it is probably more sensible, on a 1-user system, not to load the SuSE-provided T'bird, F'fox and Open Office, but to get them from the publishers of those apps and install them directly.

This makes *no* sense, what-so-ever. You cannot be serious!

And you should not publish such drivel here where others can add to their confusion. You have been here a long time, especially to present such a lack of knowledge of the system you run.

I agree. In my experience, the Novell version of OpenOffice is far more superior than the generic version that comes out of oOo.org. There's better compatibility with MS Office documents. I've had experiences where someone would send me an MS Office document to edit, and I went into generic OpenOffice. When I send it back to them, their formatting would be broken. Those problems went away once I started using the Novell version exclusively. Although it is labeled as "UNSTABLE" at the moment, you might want to consider getting the bleeding edge version of OpenOffice which raises you to version 2.3.0.3 on OpenSuse 10.3. The repository for this is at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/UNSTABLE/openSUSE_.... Personally, I'd take an unstable version of Novell's OpenOffice than a stable version of generic OpenOffice any day.

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Marcus Meissner

23:20

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 03:14:23PM -0500, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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Cristian Rodriguez wrote:

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Dennis J. Tuchler escribió:

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A question about bug fixes: Once they are fixed, are they treated as updates and provided by Novell/SuSE?

If the issue is considered Critical/Blocker or security problem it will be released via regular official online update and "zypper up" will do the trick ;)

If the bug does not fall in the previous categories it will be most likely fixed in the next version (openSUSE 11, no ETA/Roadmap yet)

If not, how does one keep track of

...
the bug fixes and install them?

subscribe to the announce lists.

Thanks for your response. I guess that it is probably more sensible, on a 1-user system, not to load the SuSE-provided T'bird, F'fox and Open Office, but to get them from the publishers of those apps and install them directly.

Well, for Thunderbird and Firefox we usually upgrade anyway to the current Minor versions, so you will get the same binary even. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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