Which is exactly what I did, but it's not as simple as that. The RPM's contain a lot more than the tarball (distro-specific scripts, config files, etc.), and we prefer to do the installs that way.
Closing the circle on this discussion, my only point was that it would be a lot simpler for us if SuSE would provide 390 binary RPM's for products like Samba the same way they do for Intel. Let us decide whether we want the patched version of the same level from the distro, or the new version. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8 > > > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:19, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > > Assuming you can get them, per my other notes. > > > > If Samba 2.2.6 RPM's are only available to licensees of > SuSE for Intel, they don't help me much. > > Samba source is available to anyone. You just have to build it. If > your vendor won't provide material you consider essential and for > a reasonable price go elsewhere. > > Thats why competition is good 8) >
