Return-Path: Message-ID: <4858E396.7020208@suse.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:29:42 +0200 From: Stefan Seyfried MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BlueZ users References: <3e9cdced0806140254u1fdcc62dq4333252ba2d01662@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3e9cdced0806140254u1fdcc62dq4333252ba2d01662@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] different versions of bluez depending on distribution Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Fritz Code wrote: > Well there seem to be different bluez versions depending on the > distribution. E.g. on my (old) SuSE 10.2 System bluez is installed in > version 3.7 (its supposed to be newer than the latest official bluez pack= age > - strange!) ? > But the latest release of the public bluez.org download-section is 3.32? I'd say that 7 < 32. > Do the the distributors compile their own bluez packages and at the same > time change the version-number? I don't > I also figured out some differences e.g. in the arguments of the request > message, sent out after a create_bonding. > Why do they make such changes? I'm pretty sure i didn't. Probably it's just that 3.7 had different handling than 3.32 has. > I think this strategy is sort of confusing because you don't know exactly > the differences of official bluez packages and the adpated of your > distribution... I add only very few patches to the package. Sometimes it's fixes backported from newer releases after the version freeze for the distribution, sometimes it's some special stuff needed for interaction with the system, which might not (yet) be upstream, but that is pretty rare. -- = Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N=FCrnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users