On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Nicholas Dille wrote:
and since suse offers their distributions online (though i don't know how complete those archives are) one could just obtain the appropriate package from the curent distribution.
AFAIK, the archives are complete, except some "commercial" packages (the "pay" series) which they aren't allowed to distribute on the net (e. G. the unlimited OSS version). Obtaining binary packages and installing them in an older SuSE version could lead to unexpected problems, E. g.: - The new pakage needs a new rpm-version - The software is linked against newer versions of libs etc. - Yast / SuSEConfig format could have changed - The path could have changed - The package could depend on another package which you also have to update (See also: recursiveness :-) -- \ markus schaber -- http://www.schabi.de/ -- ICQ# 22042130 / ---------------------------------------------------------- \ Warum umständlich, es geht doch auch kompliziert! / \ (Eva Maria Schaber) --------------------------------