Randall L. Rathbun said:
> So if you are running, say Red Hat, or Suse, or Debian, or Mandrake,
> is there
> a better choice than apt for branching out and keeping software up to
> date?
I've been running SuSE on a few systems lately and I like their system
for on-line updating. SuSE does it a little different. They never
really "upgrade" a package. If there is a patch for a program they
backport the patch the original version and up the minor version
number for that package. So the latest version of python 2 on my
server is
python-2.2.2-111 only the last number (111) changes if SuSE updates
it. I think this lends to the stability of the system.
However, finding packages for SuSE that aren't included in their
distribution can be a challenge at times. Some of the SuSE developers
have unsupported packages in their personal space of SuSE's ftp
server. Barring that, I have to go looking for source packages.
Fortunately rpm is widely supported and many source packages include
spec files for building rpms.
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