I noticed the next version of SuSE has OpenOffice 2.0 pre-release. Just wondering what happens when OpenOffice 2.0 final is released. Does Novell do a full update via yast or do they just bug/security patch the pre-release as they do with the rest of the rpm packages. I ask this because I noticed with most linux distributions only stick with what they released. Example if they have Openoffice 1.1 when the distribution is released they typically don't do updates to 1.2 but just patch the 1.1 version correct. Yes I know I can download the full update directly but I like yast to handle the updates. Less for me to break.:) Does this make any since? Tnaks Doug
Doug, On Friday 11 March 2005 07:46, Doug Currey wrote:
I noticed the next version of SuSE has OpenOffice 2.0 pre-release.
Just wondering what happens when OpenOffice 2.0 final is released. Does Novell do a full update via yast or do they just bug/security patch the pre-release as they do with the rest of the rpm packages.
I ask this because I noticed with most linux distributions only stick with what they released. Example if they have Openoffice 1.1 when the distribution is released they typically don't do updates to 1.2 but just patch the 1.1 version correct.
There are two possibilities: 1) A YOU patch 2) A YaST Install & Remove-compatible supplementary update Method (2) is how we've been kept up-to-date with the latest KDE software. I think there's ample precedent to feel confident that SuSE / Novell will provide a convenient means to go from the pre-release to the final form of OpenOffice.org version 2.0 without involving yourself in acquisition of an independently created set of packages and manual installation of those packages.
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Doug
Randall Schulz
"Doug Currey"
I noticed the next version of SuSE has OpenOffice 2.0 pre-release.
Just wondering what happens when OpenOffice 2.0 final is released. Does Novell do a full update via yast or do they just bug/security patch the pre-release as they do with the rest of the rpm packages.
I ask this because I noticed with most linux distributions only stick with what they released. Example if they have Openoffice 1.1 when the distribution is released they typically don't do updates to 1.2 but just patch the 1.1 version correct.
We're not doing anything like that...
Yes I know I can download the full update directly but I like yast to handle the updates. Less for me to break.:)
Does this make any since?
No ;-) The problem is that a full release needs to go through complete Q&A - but if we only add bugs, we know what has been fixed and what needs to be tested. Let's wait until OOo 2.0 comes out as final version and then we'll decide. We'll continue to track the release and our OOo team will fix bugs that have been found... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Andreas Jaeger wrote: (snip)
The problem is that a full release needs to go through complete Q&A - but if we only add bugs, we know what has been fixed and what needs to ^^^^^^^^ be tested.
Andreas
Omg! Not you too! Like those evil people of Redmond who add bugs on installation. (According to Fred Miller who says that it is bug free while shrinkwrapped. I have a different theory.) -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
Jos van Kan
Andreas Jaeger wrote: (snip)
The problem is that a full release needs to go through complete Q&A - but if we only add bugs, we know what has been fixed and what needs to ^^^^^^^^ be tested.
Andreas
Omg! Not you too! Like those evil people of Redmond who add bugs on installation. (According to Fred Miller who says that it is bug free while shrinkwrapped. I have a different theory.)
It's time for me to go home ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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