-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leon Brooks wrote: > On Monday 25 November 2002 10:10 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > >>>you could try texstar's RPM: >>>ftp://[...]/mandrake/9.0/contrib/3ddesktop-0.2.3-1mdk.i586.rpm >> > >>I think it's a good rule of thumb to *never* install an RPM that's >>packaged for a different distribution. > > > Adam, this _is_ packaged for Mandrake 9.0, as is much stuff from PLF, Ranger > et al. > > The risks in intalling it are that Mandrake doesn't put out updates, and they > often require dependencies from contribs (not as widely available as the main > distro and also not updated). However - in Texstar's case at least - you can > use urpmi on the site to stay with the pace.
For Ranger's 8.2 stuff also ... I have just been too busy to get my stuff rsyncing up for 9.0 to bother with urpmi, and there aren't really that many RPMs there, since most of my stuff is going into MandrakeClub (which also puts urpmi-able RPMs into the unsupported directory). It's pretty sparse for 9.0 now (cdbakeoven, kopete, waimea, mjpegtools and gfm at the moment), but quite a bit of stuff is in testing inside MandrakeClub, which will make it out quite soon ... Olivier, is the php script that actually generates the sources lists available? I would like to set it up for use inside our university (bandwidth outside is very expensive), as I already have mirrors of PLF and jpackage, and would like to make it easier for people internally to get the right contrib mirror (which is only accessible by that name from inside). Could you include it in your package? Regards, Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE94fxurJK6UGDSBKcRAtaBAJ945rK+JP325mFYDpzBUCfwk5Yl+wCgmCL8 TvCx1fPBfioVG4xWA2b/kOI= =3wWb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
