Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Harry ten Berge <htenberge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:31:42PM +0200, Harry ten Berge wrote:
>   
>> Back to the topic: what is exactly the reason that development of
>> yet-another-package-solution was started (zmd/rug) and so on where smart
>> offers in my opinion a very well starting point...
>>     
>
> The reason is basically that the enterprise version needs some
> features that smart doesn't have.
> The most important one is the handling of "patches", i.e. groups
> of rpms. We need a way to make it possible for the admin to
> select/deselect such patches, e.g. when he decides that the patch
> is too unsafe for his critical application.
> Tools like smare just look at single rpms and check if a newer
> version is available or not. This is not enough for the enterprise.
>
> Btw, zmd/rug is not a new thing, it is based on the red carpet
> system. What's new is the libzypp library.
>
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
>
>   
Not to be cynical, but if it's not new, why doesn't it work properly?
And, what I really can't understand, is the ignorance of the impact that
the whole issue will have on the
very good reputation that SUSE had in the past.

Regards Harry



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