I found many packages were not safe to run, at least not without a lot
of work involved to make them work. I downloaded many cooker packages
just after installing 7.2 (only because I like breaking the software I
depend on :)) only to find out they would not install normally. I
ended up using rpm --upgrade --no-deps, and in the case of glibc, I had
to add --noscripts. Having to run options like this is a bad thing in
itself. While I found a few packages worked after using this method, I
found most did not.
My latest plan to run cooker is to download everything and attempt to
build bootable cdroms with my burner. Unfortunatley, the only Sparc
mirror I can find is rpmfind.net, and that is pretty slow lately. Many
x86 sites seem to have acceptable speed, however.
Morten Poulsen wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> Is it safe to run cooker presently? I have a well-functioning 7.2 system, but
> more and more packages in contrib seems to require newer versions of libc++
> etc. and I wondered if it works if I upgrade? how well does gcc 2.96 work?
>
> Please tell me if it is safe.
>
> Best regards
> Morten Poulsen
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