SuSE freeze fixed!

[Christoph Thiel]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > 
> > > > Those RPM patches don't seem to have anything todo with the verion of 
> > > > rpm that we have in SUSE Linux - could you please elaborate on that?
> > > 
> > > These are possible fixes for the problem. If you're using an older 
> > > version, you'll have to understand what they do, and port them.
> > 
> > Well, our rpm (4.1.1) isn't multi-threaded so there isn't much to port 
> > from that patches... anyway, we'll switch to 4.4.2 soon, which should fix 
> > those problems.
> 
> What's the problem with a you update for rpm?

First of all we don't do that kind of YOU updates by policy.


> Once again my main problem with (open)SUSE: security fixes only. I 
> upgraded pine and openvpn from factory already myself for SUSE 10.0... I 
> still don't understand the policy, we could have a testing repository 
> for things like functional upgrades.

Let's take this to the openSUSE lists as it doesn't really belong here ;)


Regards
	Christoph