Third party software update policy? Apache, PHP, SSH, ect.

Is there an official suse update policy around?

I'm confused on when packages get updated. I am using 9.2 and the latest
version of Apache2 is at 2.0.50 vs 2.0.55 and
PHP4 is at 4.3.8 vs the latest ar 4.4.1. Both have security fixes I would
like to have.

I can download and compile all of this manually, but the convienence of
precompiled packages is nice.

Should I not expect to see current builds of various software for suse and
build anything critical myself instead of using yast and you?

Thanks.

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Ian Smith
www.ian.org <-- Email is here.

Ian Smith wrote:

> Is there an official suse update policy around?
>
> I'm confused on when packages get updated. I am using 9.2 and the latest
> version of Apache2 is at 2.0.50 vs 2.0.55 and
> PHP4 is at 4.3.8 vs the latest ar 4.4.1. Both have security fixes I
> would like to have.
>
> I can download and compile all of this manually, but the convienence of
> precompiled packages is nice.
>
> Should I not expect to see current builds of various software for suse and
> build anything critical myself instead of using yast and you?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Ian Smith
> www.ian.org <-- Email is here.

Hi Ian,

You may want to look at this link:
http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/...port_lifecycle
and this is the link from previous page:
http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/...resupport.html

The practical orientation would be to look in following SUSE releases (9.3
and 10.0) to see what versions are supported there. Somewhere I read that
collection of packages called release doesn't change much to ensure
stability.

--
Regards,
Rajko.

Ian Smith <NoSpam@goto.homepage.for.email.com> wrote:
> Is there an official suse update policy around?

I'm not aware of an official policy in writing;
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/1...backports.html
reflects my current understanding.

HTH,
--
Ray Dassen
Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical Services
Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise http://www.novell.com/open

Ian Smith wrote:
> Is there an official suse update policy around?
>
> I'm confused on when packages get updated. I am using 9.2 and the latest
> version of Apache2 is at 2.0.50 vs 2.0.55 and
> PHP4 is at 4.3.8 vs the latest ar 4.4.1. Both have security fixes I would
> like to have.
>
> I can download and compile all of this manually, but the convienence of
> precompiled packages is nice.
>
> Should I not expect to see current builds of various software for suse and
> build anything critical myself instead of using yast and you?
>
>

Could this be what you seek?

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/apache/apache2/9.2-i386

Suse is very conservative about major version updates in YOU, but many
upgrades are available in the "projects" directory. Packman and Guru
also carry newer versions of some packages.

Mark

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <no@email.sorry> wrote in message
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> Ian Smith <NoSpam@goto.homepage.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Is there an official suse update policy around?
>
> I'm not aware of an official policy in writing;
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/1...backports.html
> reflects my current understanding.

Ahh, that is what I was wondering.

So a package like Apache will be put into a release at a specific version,
and that version number will not change.
But security fixes are backported into it. (For some packages.)

Thanks a lot!

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Ian Smith
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