Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1156 mails)

[hekate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (hekate)]

You're right of course and I TOTALLY misunderstood your first question ... I
knew about the  other RPMS (FYI!) but as I said I misunderstood you  or
whatever. I don't think SuSE has any kind of user repository though it would
be nice if they did... maybe this will spark such a thing
Dwight Johnson wrote:

> On Sat, 23 May 1998, hekate wrote:
>
> >
> > > THe RedHat RPMS are glibc based and if you try to build then on the
> > > SuSE sys I don't think it'll work. Slak packs are fine though. YOu
> > > might want to try either finding a SuSE proggie you like for this or
> > > building one from source. Also checkout freshmeat they have  a decent
> > > software archive you can search through to see if you see something to
> > > your liking.
>
> FYI Red Hat maintains a vast repository of rpms contributed by users
> in two main sections--one libc based and compatible with RH 4.2 and
> the other glibc based and compatible with RH 5.0.
>
> Theoretically, all of the libc rpms could be installed on S.u.S.E.
> However, I wouldn't advise it as the S.u.S.E. and Red Hat directory
> schemas for installing and library access are quite different.
>
> My original question was whether a repository of *user contributed*
> rpms exists somewhere for S.u.S.E.
>
> If it does not yet exist, it would certainly be worthwhile to create
> one.
>
> Dwight
>
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