SLES Upgrading

[dandart]

I'd like to be able to upgrade and install new packages in my SLES 10 system but there aren't any new RPMs available.

I hear you can use RPMs from the repositories of Suse 10.1.
Can I use a later version because they're missing and out-of-date?

Since I'm using an obscure architecture (s390(x)), would there be any RPMs for this platform still?
I hear I can do it with the sources from Yast..... is this true, and how is it possible?

If all else fails would it be a better idea to use apt-rpm or install an apt client for a Debian repository?

[gogalthorp]

Why not just upgrade to a newer OS (10.3 or 11)?

Note if you do, do a full install and tell the installer not to format the partition containing home just mount it to /home this will perserve you personal data and settings.

It is not a good idea to mix distros better to install from source.

[scrarfussi]

i'm with gogalthorp just do a clean install of a newer version of suse even if you decide too compile from source the newer packages you will damage your system dependency errors

[dandart]

The problem with that is that SUSE doesn't support my arch in openSUSE, only SLES.
ARCH=s390