Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

[Jamie O'Shaughnessy <jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've tried apm4rpm and although I like the idea, I'm not that happy about
how well it's working. It seems it is more than willing to upgrade
necessary libraries and other components from sources like Ximian and 3rd
party builders. I don't want that, as I've been burned far too much in the
past with getting systems in a state and not being able to easily move
back to suse rpms. If I could make apt work to only get rpms from the suse
site, I'd be much happier.

Still apm4rpm doesn't solve the problem on SuSE's site having rpms that
won't install with one another.

Jamie

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, John Ross Hunt wrote:

> > I know the extra updated packages on ftp.suse.com are
> > supplementary, but
> > it's a real pain that SuSE don't keep them in sync. e.g.
> > under Gnome there
> > is a mozilla-1.0-10.rpm but under Mozilla there is a
> > mozilla-1.0-4.i386.rpm - so you can't use the
> > mozilla-mail-1.0-4.i386.rpm
> > (to get mail in mozilla) package unless you install the
> > Mozilla directory
> > version of mozilla - of course then you can't use the galeon
> > out of the
> > Gnome directory :(
> >
> > I know it's work for SuSE to keep doing these builds, but
> > it's frustrating
> > as a user to go through this.
>
> That's why apt4rpm was invented:
>
>  http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
>
> If that's too convoluted, just download from the FTP site:
>
>  ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/
>
> It's synchronized with the latest and greatest updates + supplementary
> stuff.
>
> -jrh
>
>
>
>

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Jamie O'Shaughnessy   jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx