On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:16 +0100, Yashpal Nagar wrote: [...] > What i want to know here is, as a practice should one go ahead and > install (on top of RHEL/SUSE) such updates/packages from Fedora or > Opensuse, whenever they become available? if yes what could happen to > the server when you apply service packs which lately become available > from Redhat or Novell, service pack installation would't comlain & run > with no trouble? if no - then what are the reasons? [...]
In general, it is not a good idea to mix and match packages, even if they are from distributions that are apparently related, e.g., RHEL and Fedora. That is because the two distributions will undoubtedly have a different set of packages, at different version numbers, and are each tested with that particular configuration. Mixing them up is inviting trouble, and I would only do that in a critical situation. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
