Versions and Updates
From: B Gruff (bbgruff_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 06/22/04
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:43:02 +0100
Very much a newbie question.
Can somebody just explain to me the logic behind Versions and Updates,
please?
For instance, I have SuSE 9.1.
That included a given version of both Linux and apps, so that I have a
version of the kernel, a version of KDE, a version of KNode, a
version of Thunderbird, etc, which came with it.
When I do an Online Update, what am I doing?
Are those versions staying the same or not?
If they are changing, then I can't see why I would ever need (for
example) to go to SuSE 9.2, 9.3. 10.0 etc., because I'd already be
there, so they must stay the same!
- but if versions are NOT being changed, then I won't ever get (say)
from Thunderbird 0.6 to 0.7 just by doing Online Updates?
- so I'd need to install 0.7 myself (just as well, in view of dire
warnings about needing to remove old before installing new!)
- but if I install 0.7, YaST is likely to try to over-write it with
0.6 again, unless I do something along the lines that Ruurd Pels
suggested in a previous thread (YOU and Yast), and it seems to me
that that could get very complicated if one did it for a lot of apps.
I'm very confused. There will be a blindingly simple logic to this of
course, but I just can't see it. What ARE those Online Updates
doing?
Bill
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