On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 17:09:29 +0200 Pascal Bleser <pascal.ble...@opensuse.org> wrote:
> On 2012-04-05 16:02:30 (+0100), Cristian Morales Vega > <reddw...@opensuse.org> wrote: > > On 5 April 2012 15:45, Pascal Bleser > > <pascal.ble...@opensuse.org> wrote: > > > Henne added SLE-11-SP2. And why go with SP1 if we can go with > > > SP2 ? > > > SP1 seems to be the oldest supported version. Building against it > > warranties it will work with all the supported versions of SLE-11 > > (those being SP1 and SP2, but no GA). > > > > I mean, this compatibility thing is only half true: e.g. SP2 > > > ships with Qt >= 4.8, while "SP0" doesn't. > > > Which means a binary build against SP2 perhaps will not work in SP0. > > But a binary build in SP0 will work in SP2 (if you trust Qt ABI is > > 100% stable). > > Yes, but there are things we can build on SP2 which we can't > build on SP1 (e.g. vlc 2.x). > > I guess that the ideal setup then would be to build Essentials > against SP1, and then only build against SP2 when we can't build > against SP1. > > The trouble though is that users of SP2 need to add both the > (Packman) repo for SP1 and the (Packman) repo for SP2, at least > if they want to use those additional packages (such as vlc 2.x). > Still sounds like a viable option, but IMHO experience shows > that this kind of information is very difficult to get across to > users. > > Opinions? > > cheers Hi Correct, they need to add both SP1 and SP2 just like the default repositories added (as indicated in the TID), the structure should follow the same concept. SP1 == SP1. SP2 = SP1 & SP2. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default up 21:24, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman