2008/4/14 Alexandros Karypidis <akarypid@yahoo.gr>:
Hi all,
To my understanding (and I am seeking verification for this) Novell bases its official SLES/SLED distributions on openSuSE. Is the "codebase" for the official distributions a fork from some openSuSE version? In other words, does Novell take a snapshot of openSuSE version X to produce SLES Y?
There reason I am asking, is because I would like to produce RPMs for both openSuSE and SLES and was wondering if I can use openSuSE for both. For instance, if SLES 10 SP1 is really openSuSE 10.1 with super polishing and support, I could use openSuSE 10.1 and have the same kernel symbols, C libraries, package names and dependencies, etc. Therefore I could build RPMs for SLES without having to pay for a license.
Or is openSuSE entirely unrelated to Novell's official distros?
Thanks.
P.S. I did try web searches for things such as "openSuSE / SLES compatibility matrix" "SLES based on openSuSE" and found nothing.
AFAIK SLES10 is based on openSUSE 10.1, but they are not 100% compatible, which means you cannot build RPMs for SLES without having SLES installed. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org