On 9 Dec 2001, Marc Bunce wrote:
Hi everyone I have just switched to suse 7.3 pro from red hat 7.2 last weekend and
Congrats.
was wondering if suse have a program similar to red hat rawhide.
No. SuSE doesn't really have any sort of public beta program. Actually, now that I think of it, Rawhide is more of a public alpha, kind of like Debian Sid. For those out there not familiar w/ RH, it's where you often end up going if you want a prepackaged binary rpm for something that is not available yet in the mainline distro, either at all or in a newer release.
I have a lot of software in srpm and cant seem to build it due to different locations, etc
Yep. Welcome to a RedHat dominated RPM world. I am getting kind of frustrated w/ this myself. Basically, if it doesn't install (sometimes) or build on a SuSE system, then I guess you need to either build an RPM yourself, or install from sources. Even then, you may end up having to tweak some config files due to some filesystem differences. Supposedly SuSE is more 'right' than RedHat in this respect, for what good it does the end user. So much for everybody abiding by the LSB and File System Hiearchy.
thankyou
HTH, Monte _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com