But, why it takes so long (4-5 days)? This is serious security update. Is there some extra work after recompiling? Not all packages can be compiled at once for all architectures and all suse versions. When the announcement is released, all of them (or at least most) have been built (because the MD5 sums are in the announcement). I guess, newer and more common versions are built before sparc or older suse release packages. SuSE puts up the packages as soon as they are built, and you can usually find them using YOU or fou4s a few days before
On Mar 19, Ivan Gustin