Anybody using SuSE?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:43 -0500, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > Some one like Lonnie or Kurt may know this. Does Suse build the system
> > as i86_386 compatiable type system or does it build from source rpms'?
> 
> If you're asking if SuSE is self-hosting, I honestly don't know.  I know
> that Caldera was.

SUSE have a package that you can install to be used when building
packages for SUSE. It is 3 GB. The idea (which I like) is that this
package makes a sandbox that looks like the SUSE release you target, not
like whatever tour machine looks like that day. After all, you are
making a package for SUSE - not for your computer's version of it. This
is a general package that comes with SUSE. It is discussed in more
detail on the OpenSUSE site, complete with docs on how best to make a
SUSE package. Which is RPM, not apt or anything else. So, by SUSE
package they mean one that should not cause RPM dependency hell when
installed on a SUSE computer other than the one on which it was made.
All this effort is to try to increase the number of people making
SUSE-compatible RPMS.


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>