On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:09:02PM -0400, Michael Marcucio wrote:
> contrib: packages not included in 8.2 but will install fine on this system
If you mean Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc then you're not really right.
Unfortunately the contrib under Mandrake-devel is for cooker. PPC
doesn't get it's own binary archive (Mandrake/8.2/{i586,ia64}) or
contrib dir for released versions (Mandrake/8.2/contrib/i586). So
really there is no good contrib archive for 8.2/ppc.
> cooker: don't even to attemp to install on an 8.2 install because
> everything is compiled with gcc3
Yes and no. Not everything has been recompiled. And even if they have
been if it's not a C++ app it's likely to work on 8.2. However, there
may be other issues that stop things from working right. Same thing
holds true of the Mandrake-devel/contrib archive.
> updates: updates to the packages that came with the 8.2 cds
Correct, these are security or other updates done due to bugs.
If you're looking for things that are normally included in main for x86
but aren't on the ISO's for PPC I've got an archive of all the stuff
that didn't make 8.2. But I don't have an 8.2 contrib archive.
All the things that would have been on the 3rd ISO had there been one
are here:
http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/8.2-Supplemental/
HTH
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