Re: [linux-security] supported distributions

[Duncan Napier <dgnapier@sfu.ca>]

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Martin Siegert wrote:
> 
> 1) As of now SuSE Linux 9.0 is available from sphinx in
>    /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0
> 
>    I have not rewritten check-rpms to work with that distribution, but I
>    will do so soon.
> 

Did an NFS install off from spinx today using a boot CD from the SuSE 9.0
bootimage in /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/boot/boot.iso. The machine was a
Dell PowerEdge P4 server. I chose Manual Installation/network/NFS. The
install went fine except for one hiccup. 

The installer's package list seems to be slightly out of sync with the
contents of the /vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/suse/i586 directory. 

For example, during the install the installer reports:

Package kdelibs3-3.14-37.i586 not found on medium
Err:11282:ERROR Media file not found

Choosing the option "Ignore", allows the install to continue. (This is
also annoying since it requires user intervention before the install
continues). The end result was the KDE environment was broken. Manually
installing the kdelibs3-3.14-37.i586.rpm fixed the problem.

An inspection of the RPM directory  

/vol/vol0/distrib/suse/9.0/suse/i586

shows that the existing package is kdelibs3-3.1.4-38, not
kdelibs3-3.1.4-37. Other packages affected that I noticed were lilo and
pinentry (don't ask me about the latter one - SuSE seems to throw a lot
of extra baggage in, even if you request a "minimal install").

Feel free to email me with any questions about the SuSE install and I'll
try to answer them, if I can.

				Regards,

				Duncan.