At 06:41 PM 1/30/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Why is this a surprise?
I didn't say there was anything wrong with it, I just assumed that any "bad" package would be replaced by it's update in the FTP tree. As I said, once I got to thinking about it, it made sense.
This was always the case. A distribution tree is comparable to a CD. If you install from CD, you have to upgrade your installation as well.
Once I got to thinking about that I decided that was probably a feature, not a bug, in case there was some reason you _had_ to use the older version.
It's neither of them. You install a distribution, then you apply the patches.
That's fine, though it *could* be done either way, I think. After all, there's not technical reason the updates couldn't be integrated into the FTP tree if that's what SuSE wanted to do, is there? Maybe there is, I don't know and don't particularly care, but I can't think of any. Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com