19 Feb
2021
19 Feb
'21
21:43
On 19/02/2021 15.00, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 07:19 -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
L A has a complicated problem you may not have been following. I don't
remember all of it.
A TW machine had some hardware problem and could not be updated for some
months. The compression format of rpms changed meanwhile. The rpm code
in the machine can not cope with the new format and the machine can not
be updated.
L A has been trying to build rpm program or libraries that can be
installed on that system and tha can cope with that new format, but
failed. There is a bugzilla about it.
Part of the problem is people telling to use OBS and L A refusing for
privacy or enterprise reasons, and rebuilding the rpm from published rpm
source code seems to be impossible, unless done at the OBS, which is
external to L A.
I may of course have gaps in my understanding :-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 2021/02/16 23:30, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
Just tested:
This comes from openSUSE 10.2 - which was released in 2006; so 15 years
ago. The package installs just fine - and runs.
So - case proven? can we move on now? Seems you mix up Tumbleweed as rolling release
distribution with
openSUSE Leap/SLE as stable distribution.
In the first case, you have always the newest stuff, in the later
case, you have stable interfaces, with the drawback, this is old
code.
Windows gets around it by having multiple so's -- installing the
'so'
that each program compiled with.
Tumbleweed tries the best to provide all the new,
shiny features
in a stable way, Leap and SLE tries eveything to stay compatible
without providing all the new features.
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That answers my question about how many corporations are using TW.
Though to be honest, I want to update my linux system about as often
as I change Win OS's. Win 7 was out for about 12 years w/support. I was
an early adopter and am still using it. But never was Win7 keeping me
from using new programs (well until recently). How many progs from
an opensuse release from 2008 would work on a system from today?