Hi, On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
I'm downloading the latest SuSE (6.4) to my hard drive at the moment. I would like to ask a few questions before installing it on my machine.
First, I come from a Red Hat background, and am familiar with how Red Hat lays out their CD to do an install. SuSE is a little different in that it appears to offer a lot more.
Yes, that might be true. Unfortunately we did not do a very good job on documenting this :(
Normally, when Red Hat released updates, and I wanted to build a new install CD, I went to the directory where the RPMS where, replaced them with the updated or new RPMS from Red Hat's site, and then I need to run a small utility program in the release to update the package listing for the next time I wanted to do an install.
Hey, that sounds neat. Is there any documentation about this somewhere?
How does this work with SuSE? I noticed that SuSU has released security updates, patches, enhancemnets, etc. Do I just replace the existing packages with the new ones, and install as normal, or is there some master list that needs to be updated before I actually do the install. I would like to save myself a little bit of time by installing all of the latest stuff the first time.
I just asked one of our Gurus about this. If the package still has the same name, it should be sufficient to simply replace the RPM with the updated one. It might be, that YaST's package description and disk use estimation might be wrong because this information is stored on separate files on the CD. But it should basically work like this.
Next, is there a document that describes the file structure layout for SuSE. I'm not sure, but I believe Red Hat is not 100% strict when adherirng to the proposed directory layout for a standard Linux machine. I've heard that SuSE is very good with regards to this. Any leads?
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