So all this dependency talk and latest packages stuff got me thinking.
I can add a SuSE 9.3 ftp installation source to my SuSE 9.2 box and get
packages that are newer than are in the 9.2 ftp dirs but obviously that
"breaks away from the distro" per se. Does Debian Mandrake or any other
distro for that matter do this too?? i.e. create packages up to a
certain version for a source then when the next stable revision of the
distro comes, stop updating packages for the first (with the exception
of security packages of course)?? For example, now that SuSE 9.3 is
out, as Chuck is dealing with, the only evolution package available in
the 9.2 ftp path is evolution-2.0.1-6.4. This will not change unless a
security vulnerability is uncovered for the package. You have to either
upgrade to 9.3 to get the 2.1.1 version or point your Installation
source to the updated ftp dir for the latest packages. Which of course
wants to update a lot of stuff once you do!! When you apt-get in Debian
(probably sid or whatever the testing ver. is), is it always bleeding
edge or do they stop doing the latest after a while and move on to the
next release??
Mike Branda Jr.
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