Hello, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:54 PM
> A much better model IMHO is the RedHat model. Every six months or so a > complete package is built where everything was built using the > same version > of everything. From this one image, you can install the binaries from the > pieces you want and replace the others either with alternate binaries > (RPMs) or by compiling them yourself from source. And even cooler thing is 'rpmfind [--latest] [--sources] <package>'. Funny, that is not that difficult to implement, and the model is already out there - RDF. There's an annoying flaw in the RPM distribution model, though - they 'build' the packages with RPM, but the packages themselves often use autoconf to sense the system configuration, and as a result, if you recompile the source RPM, you're *guaranteed* to have a different binary RPM than RedHat. But then again, *that* one is guaranteed to work on *your* box. > - Sam Ruby --vt
