Re: [suse-sles-e] guidlelines for YOU use?

From: Peter Van Lone (petervl_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2006 - 17:48:42 CEST


Message-ID: <68b791330605080848i3b549b6fu5664f97f5331079a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 10:48:42 -0500
From: "Peter Van Lone" <petervl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] guidlelines for YOU use?

On 5/8/06, Peter Van Lone <petervl@gmail.com> wrote:
> these items are "security updates". I would think that they always
> should be installed? There is no + next to them, however ...
> generally, I should select these, or not?

I guess I'm going to have to go ahead and just accept the defaults ...
but I am confused. It seems like some of the "reccomeneded" packages
are not marked with a + because they are only for a 64 bit hardware.
But others it seems SHOULD be marked:

     patch-10242RecommendedRecommended update for Postfix
  patch-10246Security Security update for tcpdump
  patch-10261Security Security update for sudo

This system has postfix installed, for one, and tcpdump is universal I
believe, and sudo is in use currently. So, why would these items not
be selected automagically?

I have looked on the novell site and at the sles 9 documentation, but
I can find no comprehensive guide on how to interpete these
options/selections.

<sigh> ok, here goes 'something' ... hopefully not a system implosion!

P



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