One of the reasons I am using openSUSE now, is because I am also using SLES 9 at work. SLES9 seems a little dated, and I have been having a difficult time updating certain packages for it, currently Apache 2.2. I am using the "smart" package manager on SUSE 10 now (thanks!), but its website says its only tested on 10 and 10.1. It is also not in YAST on SLES9.
Is there an easy to use package manager that will work with SLES9, which I believe is based on SUSE 9.1? While trying to install Apache 2.2 (so I can use it's load balancing module for ruby/rails), I ended up having to install several rpms - one of which was apparently the wrong version ( 9.3 instead of 9.1).
One of the links posted here was for a repo that seemed to include 9.1 rpms, and I can probally manually install "smart" - but should it work? At work we have a SLES9 contract, but the online update didn't seem to have the latest version of Apache.
As a side question, is SLES9 supposed to be up-to-date, or would they mostly just have security fixes nowadays? It has a really long lifespan, but I can't imagine they would backport all the latest packages (though it would be nice if so!). I'm kind of locked in to SLES9 for work use. I've been warned about using the wrong rpms on SLES9, which is why I'm so apprehensive about it.
thanks!
