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Re: [opensuse-packaging] [Proposal] Suggests/Enhances Support in RPM/YaST
  • From: Aschwin Marsman <aschwin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:18:33 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512211315350.23717@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > > beside the minor problems we had with th rpm 4.4.2 update, we got a
> > > new cool feature:
> >
> Don't remind me of the pain I had with the update. Rpm source
> is a fragile beast, the configure options don't work well, there
> are couple of changes in the semantics and the API, in short: no fun
> at all.

If I read this correctly it's not an option to upgrade rpm on SUSE 10
to the rpm version in factory?

What are the big changes?

> I hope I don't have to do an update for the next two years.

If SUSE will keep rpm current the changes might not be so big.

> Cheers,
> Michael.

Best regards,

Aschwin Marsman

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