On 3/29/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Furthermore it brings the famous Rpm Dependency hell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell, Along with it every distribution make changes in the mainstream package before putting in repository/distribution which is always distribution specific.
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