Packaging and Several Concepts
The other day some of my colleagues were discussing about how to manage a
package. From what I heard: SUSE decides to use kernel's bundled DRDB module
instead of the version built out of DRDB's source tree, which is dropped in
DRDB's new version anyway. The package for this new DRDB is called
DRDB-user as it only contains the user-space part. The problem rises when a
user of older version of SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) decides to update to this
DRDB-user. DRDB-user is said to support some old versions, i.e. for these
versions you can mix up kernel modules from old DRDB package with newer
DRDB-user. The question is how to do the packaging? (I am totally ignorant
about DRDB, so the details might not be exact but the important point here is
packaging.)
Arch for SUSE package development
I work across multiple computers: home PC, my own laptop, company PC and laptop.
And I like to use Arch for my daily work everywhere. The problem is that
Linux does a poor job to support new hardware, more so for less known brands.
For example the sleep/hibernation on my AMD-laptop constantly breaks. So I've
opted for a VM/Linux + Windows/Linux setup. My Arch runs inside the
VirtualBox, and basically all I need is to sync the vm to have a consistent
working environment EVERYWHERE! It took me about one month to adapt to this new
layout, but it feels superb!