Karl Eichwalder wrote:

Bill C Riemers <bcr@feynman.com> writes:

| I have to say I agree. If you patch or update it, it should be called | 6.1.1 or something. Otherwise, as a software developer it becomes | extremely difficult for me to tell my clients what platform the software | has been installed on, and if any patches are required to make the | software work.

I do understand your point (and from time to time I do think the same). But in the end, I've big sympathy with Michael's position.

And than: SuSE doesn't hide the info about ugraded or updated packages. The version and the release numbers of all the rpm packages will be increased properly.

Yes, but that's hardly enough for any practical purposes. The version number of the distribution should be point-incremented It should be clearly shown on the box. There should be a document on your web site for each _release_ (not just for each major version) with a list of changes to each package in that release (compile it from your /usr/doc/packages/*/CHANGES files). It should be made much easier to identify all updated packages than it has been. I note SuSE have taken action on this score - the suse_update directories are looking a lot cleaner today and the updates&bugfixes web page seems to have been brought into step with the ftp site. All the same, I wonder if there are some packages which have changed for your latest 6.1 CDs which haven't been explicitly identified as updates in this manner. The tidy-up of the ftp site is encouraging. I hope SuSE will continue to be responsive to customer feedback. -- rclark@virgosolutions.demon.co.uk Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK) __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ * Powerful * Flexible * Compatible * Reliable * / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / *Well Supported * Thousands of New Users Every Day* /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ The Cost Effective Choice - Linux Means Business! -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>