>> It doesn't matter what has changed. What matters is that there is >> a difference between my rpms (in rpms rpms2 rpms3 ) and mirrors. >> A was under impression that RPMS dir on mirror holds everything that I >> get on my 3 cds. I will check this with 9.1 since I have those cd on >> me. MDP> Not always. I think Buchan has the right idea, actually. From the technical side yes. From the professional side no. This reminds of a time when I had to work with a slackware guy. It's nice to have such power but its to time consuming. Professional look is something that matters in business. If I had to use slackware then there would be a greater chance of mistake, not because slackware is bad but because there is a much bigger chance for me to make a mistake. With mandrake I can deploy a new server rather quickly, and it will work 90% without problems. Cause of most problems I had was because I made a mistake. That's the same thing I'm trying to do here. When something goes wrong my customers call me. They are often angry (like me now) sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong, but in either case I have to listen to them and check what they said. I gives me a great pleasure when I found out that is their fault so I can rub it on their nose :))))) But that is not important. Maybe I'm to much on the professional side but is embarrassing to me when i have to tell people that 9.2 isn't that good. Just an hour ago a guy from the next office asked me to give him 9.2 so he could try this linux thing. I had to tell him to wait a while until i build fixed iso-s or to bring his machine so I could install it properly. Maybe I'm getting to personal with this but all of my friends who have/use linux use Mandrake because i gave it to them and it ain't nice to hear from the 9.2 is a crap.
I hope that there are people here who agree that mandrake needs to pay attention and be a bit more professional especially now since they are in a financial trouble. I fell this is a lost cause. A battle that is already over since I can't reach anyone who will say "people get your act together" probably no one from the management at Mandrake will newer read this. Being professional doesn't require much time it just a matter of changing your attitude and force yourself to do the things you don't like doing. That is why SUSE is so strong in Europe. They are expensive, have bad policy on number of things but they are certainly not in financial trouble :((((( Anyway this is my last try to make things right, if you agree with me help me out, if not I will most certainly fail. MDP> What's stupid? If I don't have the latest, I'm more than willing to add a MDP> mirror so that I have them. How to add a repository in which 90% of packages are the same? I can download those which I don't have but there is a dilemma with different versions. What to do with them ? Put the newer packages that i need to a remasterd cd and the rest to contrib ? Anyway the point is that i should not have to do this in the first place. BTW i checked this with 9.1 and its the same thing (except for the versions mess). A lot of packages are missing from the first 3 cds. I have seen discussions that there should be a 4th cd, but if we are going to stick with 3 cds then please transfer those packages that cannot fit to the contrib, or somewhere else it doesn't matter where as long it is obvious where they can be found. I have newer noticed this before, but i found out now because kernel-source was removed from download edition. MDP> As far as I know, most of the "missing" stuff is on the CD's that will be in MDP> stores. If I'm mistaken, someone may feel free to correct me. Don't know that. Anyway I'm no longer able to bay packs so it doesn't matter to me. MDP> It would be a waste of time if you don't subscribe to the changelog list. Been subscribed for a long time now. I look at it from time to time as a pointer where the things are going and what software is being added. If i need a changelog for a specific package I usually look at the srpm. #Krive drine. Sta mi je sve ovo trebalo.#
