Just download the source tarball and compile it from scratch. It's not
terribly difficult, and is essentially half of what the folks who created
the RPM did. I run primarily BSD and Solaris, so I don't get the option of a
nice RPM, but I really haven't minded so far. On a reasonably new machine,
BB will compile in under 2 minutes.
BTW - if you compile from source, you can always patch it later, as the
patches are released. A lot of BB users are curmud..., er minimalists, and
prefer any upgrades to take the form of patches. Having the full source will
allow you to make use of these patch upgrades.
Seth Henry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of marco.fioretti
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:56 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Latest stable version for Red Hat 6.2
Hello again,
somebody kindly pointed out to me that the blackbox web site
defines 0.61.1 as the stable version. I already knew this,
and I had already searched rpmfind.net for the corresponding
package.
The point is that blackbox-0.61.1XXXi386.rpm is only
listed for other distributions, not Red Hat 6.2.
If a certain version of a tool is declared stable and bug free by itself, it
won't necessarily remain like that with
every version of every distro around (i.e. interworking
with every combination of kernel/glibc/X server/....)
Hence my concerns.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Marco
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