William Coulter wrote:
>Today I installed SUSE 9.3 and it went smoothly. After the install, I did an update through YAST.
> I thought that it would do the same thing as YUM or up2date but I didn't get the same results.
>Let me explain. For example: I ran YUM with fc3. Firefox 1.0.1 was installed and when I did an
>up2date it installed version 1.0.4. This was great. Now on the other hand, firefox 1.0.1 is
>installed but when I ran YAST, version 1.0.1 was still installed.
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>What I want to know is, why didn't it upgrade firefox to 1.0.4 and how do I do this?
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>I have not used SUSE before so I am shooting in the dark here. So, please help.
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The problem is that Novell Suse is being overly cautious or lazy
on updating their packages.
Distros don't just put out updates as they come from the developers.
They have to check compatibility and update dependencies.
The trouble is that anything less than firefox 1.0.4 is insecure.
Even XANDROS 2.0 has provided the 1.0.4 version.
I have tried to update various packages as DEBS or RPMS from
the originators rather than the distro and had some of them work
OK and others not all.
Richard Smoot
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