Hi, On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:50, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2005-04-27 at 22:16 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Well you see, I don't have problems with SuSE :-* so I have never had the need to bookmark that URL. But I will now.
A few versions back, it was even easier, because there was an rpm to get our local SDB server. Alas, it no longer exists. :-/
Maybe they think that every body has a full-time internet connection!
No. The technolgy behind the SUSE support data base has changed and with this change it was no longer possible to provide a local version of it (as it used to be). The SUSE support data base used to be a "stand allone apllication" (http://sdb.suse.de) but it is now integral part of the portal (http://portal.suse.com) which offers quite a bit more than just the SDB. There was a script that extracted the current content of the (old) SDB and dumped it to the local filesystem. This was then provided as a RPM with the distribution. I'm not saying it couldn't have been developed (again). Wheter or not that is the case I simply don't know. Greetings from Stuhr hartmut