Hi Am Do 16.11.2006 19:49 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know that the SUSE developers do not always notice that packages > have > newer versions.
That could be true for FACTORY - not for released products ;-) > I not that the one's I have add to bugzilla as a feature > request have all been updated. Maybe someon should file a bug feature > request. You'll not get Version Upgrades for a released product directly over the SUSE update channel (ok: we have some exeptions). SUSE has a strict policy for released products: no version upgrades, only updates for the version released with the distribution. The "trick" behind it: sometimes developers decide to add new features and perhaps some API changes to new versions. If you have installed a programm on your system and SUSE will deliver a upgrade - perhaps afterwards neither your programm nor any other programm linked against it will execute... Ask people who decided to upgrade their KDE version: sometimes it works, sometimes not. So the answer is: yes, you can _upgrade_ - but you should know that your system can be unstable if something happens with the newer programm version. If you just _update_, everything should work as expected - and even better after the update. The SUSE developers spend a lot of time fixing old versions of a programm. Remember: the programms (and their version numbers!) on SLES10 have seven years support. So perhaps in seven years, a user who has updated his system every day will just have subversion 1.3.1 on his plattform - but this version should be very "stable" then. ;-) Greetings, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
