Brian J. Murrell wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:48:38PM +0000, Stephen Pickering wrote:Personal experience, I've shown a couple of people my system or managed to
I'd like rpmdrake & urpmi to have an option to list updates that are over say 'n'
days old, a command line switch for urpmi, eg:
urpmi --available_for 5
I've found that sometimes an rpm is released and it screws the system, a few
hours or days later a new rpm is released which cures the problem.
Yeah, I would like this. I would use it for production releases as well, not just keeping a bit of distance from bleeding edge Cooker.BTW: rpmdrake is what sways most people to change to Mandrake from the likes
of RH.
Yeah? I am not disputing this fact but am interested in why people do switch. If you can, please cite the source of the data that backs this statement up.
persuade them to install Mandrake on a new system and there hooked. This
applies to people I know personally and people thru the company usenet groups.
The only ones I know who won't try Mandrake are the ones who are using
RH because it's approved for Oracle or Clearcase :-(
I've used RH, debian, suse, mandrake, slackware, corel linux & mcc (now that's
an old one, Kernel 0.93 I think :-). For the desktop, Mandrake :-)
Just need it to support deb's and for Mandrake to make the switch :-)
I _really_ do not want to start the deb. vs. rpm holy wars again, but I get so sick of hearing it from deb-heads. Why are debs so much better than rpms? Tell me what you can do on a Debian box that you can't do on a Mandrake box, package installation-wise. b.
Gentoo ? I think the following is a good read: http://www.distrowatch.com/article-rpm.php -- Steve
