Quoting Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > RPM. what's your point? > > Point me at an RPM to install kernel 2.4.20 onto RH 7.0. This is actually > a > serious question as well as an effort to make my point.
No you won't find an RPM, so you comile it from source. Easier to compile a kernel than a whole distro. No one is saying that you don't compile anything with a binary distro. Back when I was using Red Hat 7.0 it had all the latest and greatest software. Gnome 1.4 KDE 2 2.4 Kernel Latest Mozilla, etc. And everything except the kernel was upgraded with binary RPMs. It's not like these things cannot be done. > Like Microsoft has done? Mandrake as I've mentioned before? > > This isn't a slam on either company, or red hat, or anyone else. I simply > think that a given product failure is not avoided simply by having a > central > authority do the compilation. It's not if problems can occur, it's how likely problems can occur. I'll bet that if you gave Gentoo to a newbie they would have way more problems installing it than MDK. So I'm not sure how you can say that Mandrake is so bad because one user had problems installing it. It's all about the odds, and there is a good chance that you could mess up your own system because you don't compile something properly. > Not sure. I know I can install RH across a network. But I don't think I > can install RH where it checks RPMfind, or RHN, or whatever to verify that > every package it installs is the most current one. I'd love to be wrong > about that though... Mandrake will contact it's update mirrors during the install. Jesse
