Re: [linux-security] supported distributions

[Martin Siegert <siegert@sfu.ca>]

Sorry Duncan - this is probably my mistake.
It seemed to me that SuSE does not need something like the hdlist
file that RedHat uses. Now it looks that there is something like
an installer's package list. I have to figure out how where that
list lives and how to modify it.

Martin

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:07:34PM -0800, Duncan Napier wrote:
> Oooops! Further to this, I just realized I got boot.iso off a SuSE
> mirror site, and not sphinx. Maybe this was the cause of the problem
> below. 
> 
> 				Regards,
> 
> 				Duncan. 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Duncan Napier wrote:
> > 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.