Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:50:13 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially,
they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a
backport of the fix is too
Bob S wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 11:20:13 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially,
they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a
backport of the fix is too
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own,
I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that
you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and you
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own,
I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that
you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and you
On Monday 24 December 2007 04:20:07 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
[...]
I have a directory currently that is called Downloads in my Home
directory. Guess I'll be keeping it :) especially as it gets backed up.
When I install from an ~/downloads/*.rpm, should I rather copy it to
/tmp and
On Sunday 23 December 2007 01:11:17 pm Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Bob S wrote:
The trick now is to know what to do when I have downloaded the rpm, and
of course which directory to download it to on my system / i.e. /usr,
/usr/bin, opt/ i.e. where is a logical folder that I can
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own,
I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that
you're not on your own. There are
Hi,
This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to
understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to
find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this , hence
my question.
I realise that the repositories are used for updates but why has some of
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
opensuse.mirror.ac.za/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/
ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/
these two are static repository. Usually they don't change after the
initial release. Very rarely there is an update if the
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, they
only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a backport
of the fix is too complicated
So yes, if you really want updated versions of the software, you need to
either update to the latest suse
On Dec 22, 2007 9:43 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to
understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to
find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this , hence
my
jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed:
Tnx jdd,
I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide
greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the
updates have already been transferred to a mirror which I might then be
able to
Philippe Landau wrote:
Hi Hylton
Unfortunately updating OpenSuse is a mess,
but it is easy once you know the tricks.
Would you like to update to OpenSuse 10.3 ?
snip
It is the tricks I wanted to learn and updating to 10.3 I have decided
against although 11.0 is a 'definite' after watching
Anders Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, they
only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a backport
of the fix is too complicated
So yes, if you really want updated versions of the software, you need to
On December 22, 2007 07:56:12 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed:
Tnx jdd,
I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide
greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the
updates
Druid wrote:
On Dec 22, 2007 9:43 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to
understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to
find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this ,
On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own,
I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that
you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and you can
report the bug (if there
On Sunday 23 December 2007 02:50:13 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially,
they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a
backport of the fix is too complicated
So
On Saturday 22 December 2007 11:20:13 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
Hi,
Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially,
they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a
backport of the fix is too complicated
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