Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (108 mails)

[Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:11 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> If you find features lacking in SLES
> but which are in SUSE Linux
> we definitely want to hear about it,   
> to improve upon our SLES package set. 
> (Of course for some of those we might have
> decided already not to include it,  but in general...)

Lets have a look,
 find all  ".rpm" files in the 9.3 suse directory = 7493
 find all  ".rpm" files in SLES9 including all service packs = 4099
 find all  ".rpm" files in SLES9 CORE and SLES9 SLES = 2384

No wonder I am forever borrowing packages from 9.3
 to overcome shortcomings of SLES9.

Usually it's a missing package; dovecot, OpenPBS, 

Sometimes it's to update a package;
 eg: the SLES9 GD libraries aren't adequate to install bioperl.
 so I have to install GD from 9.3,
 then update the perl wrappers using CPAN.

I'm so used to not finding a SLES9 version
 I would be looking for a solution to providing updates
 to the OpenSuSE components within a SLES install.

michaelj

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