Brian J. Murrell wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:14:43PM +0000, Stephen Pickering wrote:The real reson for my post, ignore the rest of my email, if this feature is added I'm happy :-)
Brian J. Murrell wrote:On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:48:38PM +0000, Stephen Pickering wrote: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.
Personal experience,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.
This is not really a "personal attack" but your "personal experience" is hardly a valid dataset to posit what "most people" are doing, no?I've shown a couple of people my system or managed toAgain, hardly a dataset to make statements about "most people".
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.
I did say 'personal experience'.
Gentoo ?
I have not looked in detail at Gentoo but I understand their general mode of operation. There is no reason they could not have achieved the same results using .rpm rather than .deb.
I quoted Gentoo as a source of why some are unhappy with Mandrake as they have reasons why they chose to abandon Mandrake.
I know there is a holy war involved in deb vs rpm, that's why I posted a linkI think the following is a good read:Most of that is anti-RPM biased FUD, IMO. I have dealt with RPM for
http://www.distrowatch.com/article-rpm.php
many many years and have had only 1 incident of issue, when I
interrupted an RPM installation in process and lost the database.
That is one incident in many many years and many many many upgrades.
In fact I have moved several of my machines from one RPM distribution
to another -- both Mandrake Cooker and whatever the current Mandrake
release was at the time to TurboLinux on several machines (when I
worked at TL) back to Mandrake Cooker and the subsequently released
versions of Mandrake Linux -- all without incident.
I have most recently used urpmi to move from 8.2 to 9.0 much the way
deb-heads like to brag about upgrading their distros. The last time I
did an actual fresh install was the first time I install all these
boxes I have here. They have _always_ been upgraded using RPM and
urpmi.
But lets drop it here, please. If you like .deb, that is great.
Choice is the reason we are all fans of OpenSource right? But let's
not start pounding the "Mandrake should use .debs" drum yet again.
It's boring and tedious.
b.
and ducked, I personally like debian and debs and Mandrake.
--
Steve
