[ale] Suse Questions please clear my confusion

[Keith Bastin]

If you have registered the server and still don't see the repositories 
check this article http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7003779


On 9/12/2013 9:15 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Thank you.  It helped.  It lists the dependencies.  But how can I tell 
> SUSE that
>
> "ok you now know your dependencies, go and download them and install 
> them for me"
>
> I am sure it involves adding the software.suse.org 
> <http://software.suse.org> as a repo but please guide me for the first 
> few steps.
>
> Regards,
> -Narahari
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:32 PM, James Taylor 
> <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com 
> <mailto:James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     zypper info --requires <packagename>
>     -jt
>
>
>
>     James Taylor
>     678-697-9420 <tel:678-697-9420>
>     james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <mailto:james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>
>
>
>     >>> "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com
>     <mailto:savithari at gmail.com>> 9/11/2013   09:00 PM
>     >>>
>     Friends:
>
>     Our Linux Eng team released a new Secure Build for our internal usage.
>
>     It is SLES 11SP2 (dont ask me why we are so behind).
>
>     I installed it and brought up the os.
>
>     The svn it comes with is 1.6 but I tried to see if I can move to 1.8
>
>     I was told, verbatim
>
>     > =======================================
>     > If you need 1.7, you need to compile your own, or possibly download
>     the
>     > version from software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org>.
>     >
>     > If you go to opensuse.org <http://opensuse.org>, someone has
>     compiled and packaged version
>     > 1.7.10 and 1.7.5 and 1.8.3 for SLES 11 SP2.  RLSE and SUSE will not
>     support
>     > those versions, so it’ll work on best-effort support that you can
>     provide.
>     > There’s another team using subversion in ADP, and you should
>     probably talk
>     > to them about how they’ve installed the newer versions on their
>     systems..
>     >
>     > My recommendation is to at least upgrade to July 2013 to get SLES 11
>     SP2,
>     > then if you require 1.7 instead of the 1.6 that SP2 SDK provides, go
>     > download the subversion and subversion-server packages needed from
>     > software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org> for SLES 11
>     SP2.
>     > ===========================
>
>
>     To follow them I did the next set of steps.
>
>     --------------------------------------------------------
>
>     >wget
>     http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vrg:/subversion/SLE_11_SP2/x86_64/subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm
>
>
>     >sudo rpm -ivh subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm
>     warning: subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
>     NOKEY,
>     key ID 90d7671a
>     error: Failed dependencies:
>     libserf-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by subversion-1.8.3-124.2.x86_64
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     As you can see above it failed and is saying Failed dependencies.
>
>     The question is:
>
>     Do I have to keep downloading each rpm and as and when the dep fails I
>     have
>     get that rpm ?
>
>     Is there a way to tell zypper to install not only the subversion rpm
>     but
>     also the missing ones only for 11SP2 ?
>
>     What is the way to say download.opensuse.org
>     <http://download.opensuse.org> is the repo but it is
>     11SP2 ?
>
>     Thank You
>     -Narahari
>
>
>     If this is an unsolicited spam message, please click this link to
>     report it:
>     http://control.eastcobbgroup.com:49285/contents/spamreport.shtml?rptid=36094&srvid=16vl15t
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Ale mailing list
>     Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>     See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com>
> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3222/6655 - Release Date: 09/11/13
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20130912/95a91b66/attachment.html>