On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Hubertus Haniel wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:11:24 +0100 (BST) From: Hubertus Haniel
To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] Bad quality of updates from SuSE ftp server On the FTP server is a mkinitrd-1.0-219.i586.rpm which actually contains mkinitrd-1.0-221 so to fix the nice graphical boot screen which was broken with mkinitrd-1.0-219 one has to remove the currently installed mkinitrd-1.0-219 and install it again from the FTP server to perform the update.
Yesterday Yast tried to do the right thing as instructed by patches/mkinitrd-51598 but failed as it was looking for mkinitrd-1.0-221.i586.rpm which did not exist. Today this patch was marked as obsolete.
Forgot to mention that this was on SuSE 9.0
The spamassassin update published today for 8.2 contains only spamassassin but no update for perl-spamassassin so I had to rebuild the source rpm to get both.
I don't know about everybody else but I personally find the standard of SuSE updates has dropped since Novell have got the fingers in the pie.
Best regards Hubba