Re: GNU/Parallel in OBS

[R. Tyler Croy]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2011, Matt Oates (Home) wrote:

> On 3 March 2011 18:42, R. Tyler Croy <tyler@monkeypox.org> wrote:
> > I am an openSUSE user and I've gone ahead and installed parallel from the
> > home:tange project, will this be kept up to date with releases?
> 
> I'm not sure about openSUSE but Ubuntu lags behind the fresh release
> by quite some way. Development is a lot more active than any distro
> will be keeping up with. For instance named config files are quite a
> useful recent feature that isn't in the latest Ubuntu. I'm using the
> checkinstall command to install each release of parallel under package
> management.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall
> 
> If you're not familiar with checkinstall it will make you an RPM from
> the parallel source, you just use checkinstall where you would do
> "make install".

If Ole is keeping things updated in OBS, you should be able to grab packages
from the repositories autogenerated there:
    https://build.opensuse.org/project/repositories?project=home%3Atange

- R. Tyler Croy
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