Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 04 January 2004 19:10 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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> Thanks, Richard.  That's a great resource.  One last question...if
> I'm doing an FTP install of SUSE will I be installing the latest
> version of packages (such as Gnome 2.4 vs. 2.2) from the FTP
> directory.

No. The ftp directory contains the same versions of packages as the 
boxed edition, less those which cannot be redistributed that way (Java, 
for example.) The install procedure gives you the opportunity to do an 
online-update to gather the updates during the final stages.

>  If not, is it better then to do a minimal install and
> then apt-get these vs. installing older versions over FTP and then
> upgrading them?

It's up to you, really, at least as far as optional packages are 
concerned. Some will have to be installed from the ftp set in order to 
get a functional system with all dependencies satisfied (PHP may be an 
example, perl certainly would.) Also, I'd reccomend downloading the ftp 
directory to a local server for practical use - it's much more 
convenient and reliable.

Dylan

>
> Thanks again.

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