> have a stock SuSE system, but sometimes need updates. At first, I'll search at
> rpmfind.net and usually I can find a new version, but only for RedHat or
> RawHide. Installing and upgrading is mostly fine for normal utils like grep,
> patch, etc. But when I want to upgrade glibc, some things (like
> /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO-8859-1) are owned by glibc on red hat systems
> while they are owned by localedb on my SuSE system. Therefore I get a warning
> and need to use the --force option when using rpm.
>
> For servers, it's even worse, a RedHat /etc/rc.d/squid has following lines:
>
> # Source function library.
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> Unfortunately, a SuSE system has not a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions.
> Therefore the script fails or prints error messages. For every SuSE system, I
> have to write special files to make it upgradeable with RedHat rpms...
and there is VERY simple solution for this with non-comercial software
like squid.
compile everything yourself, works with any distribution
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