Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011, 11:51:23 schrieb Andreas.Vetter@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de:

> Hi,

> What is the policy for updates when building for a target?

> E.g. when I build a package that requires openssl, will it be built

> against with the GA-shipped version of openssl or against the updated

> version of openssl.

By default, you build against the GA version. This is because building

against the updated version may mean that your package would not work with

the GA version anymore. By building against the GA version, your package

should work with all ever released updates for this distro.

The only exception, where binaries are incompatible is the kernel, because they always change incompatible with any commit (they miss use parts of the release tag as part of the package version actually).

> Is this different for the SLES targets, especially SLES9?

> Or do I have to add/link something additionally? If yes, how?

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Adrian Schroeter

SUSE Linux Products GmbH

email: adrian@suse.de