Are you sure? SuSE scripts honor quotas, so I would wonder why...
Well, it worked on my systems, flawlessly... Strange.
Yes, in short I wish SuSE would be more careful in such issues. It may happen that you get an update package with different build options, sometime that is the reason for the update, but sometimes you get even new depencies or so. After all, it looks that SuSE has no well defined compile farm / build hosts, and by this every build can change the system behavoir a little. But of
What?? Sorry... :-) There is nothing like the SuSE build farm on this planet, promised. Each single package that we publish, be it on the CDs or in the update tree, is being built in an own mini installation where dependencies between packages are resolved automatically. If something is not compatible any more, it may happen that the whole distribution does not build any more. In fact, this system enables us to basically build a 6.4 distribution in about 17 hours, from scratch/source, with all updated packages, and 6 CDs in your hands, at the very same configuration.
course it's really impossible to have a RPM for each lib combination :)
kernels do not depend on any library. In fact, they do not depend on anything, the kernel binary rpm can run standalone without anything else (while it may not make sense in most cases). By consequence, you are able to use a 2.4 kernel RPM built on a SuSE-5.3 distribution and install it on a 7.3, and it should work out of the box. It's just that a 5.3 was not built for a 2.4 kernel, in fact it can't build one because of missing compiler features/bugs. The only problem that you face here are missing names/symbols in the kernel RPMs, which might force you to run rpm with the "--force --nodeps" options. The situation of the kernel RPM packages has changed within the last two years: They are widely compatible by now, and in future SuSE versions we will have it even easier with kernel updates because the kernel rpm will be just another rpm in the system, just like for example the bzip2 package.
a complete server... think on the end user how receive a email with a security advisory every time... Linux gonna loose his customers
Do you mean SuSE or really Linux?
if he don't care about all the dependencies of a system, and also don^'t explain correctly all the consequence on all the end users...
Or Linus? I'm sure he never build no SuSE RPM at all :)
At least he uses SuSE systems, while he doesn't make a fuss about that... Building an rpm is really easy once you found the basics. The SuSE spec files are very clear to read, they all look the same, and in their comments you can find the packages that are required to be installed for the package to build. Get some source rpm and do rpm --rebuild source.rpm. Funny things happen. :-)
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oki,
Steffen
Thanks,
Roman.
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