On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:22:07PM +0000, Alexandros Karypidis wrote:
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?
SLES 10 originally was based on SUSE Linux 10.1, but has deviated in the meantime. In your case I suggest building RPMs with the openSUSE buildservice, which offers both SLES and openSUSE distribituions fore building. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org