Smart on Suse 9.2

[Brian]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:59:30AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:
> > Em Seg, 2006-09-04 às 10:11 +0930, Brian escreveu:
> > 
> >> Suse 9.2 with updates
> > 
> > Not that this is really important here, but AFAIK SUSE already dropped
> > support for 9.2. Are you sure you still need to stick with it?

I have thought about this many times. To upgrade or not to upgrade. The
rapid developement of Suse Linux makes it difficult to stay fresh. I noticed
that only a few new packages were finding their way into the Suse 9.2 repository. 
I like to run a Vanilla kernel - so keeping that up to date is not a
problem. But software is becoming outdated. My 9.2 system has been good. I
have been reluctant to part with it. I thought smart may help me keep my
system going, but it is a new product and still evolving. Even
Suse 10.0 will become obsolete in time, so we badly need tools to ease the
upgrade of our systems. In the past upgrade meant reinstall. Is this still
the case ? Does Debian have a better model ?
Brian   
> 
> SUSE dropped support for 9.1, not yet for 9.2.
> 
> 9.2 EOL is around October 31st 2006:
> http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime
> 
> Nevertheless, it's difficult to fix potential smart issues on 9.2:
> almost no one has that version installed (I only have it in a build
> chroot), it uses python 2.3 (whereas SUSE >= 9.3 use python 2.4), GTK+
> 2.4.9 and PyGTK 2.2.0 (which is really old now).
> 
> In theory it should work though, smart requires python 2.3 AFAIK.
> 
> [...]
> 
> cheers
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