Ben Reser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:08:23PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Was this regarding an account with rights to upload to contrib? Did you
> > follow it up?
> >
> > And a number of people who put up those other pages are starting to
> > contribute to cooker/MandrakeClub, so that their packages are useful to
> > more people.
> >
> > Sorry, I guess I sounded a bit antagonistic in the previous mail, but I
> > *really* *really* *really* hate duplication of work, which is why
> > virtually all my RPMs now go into one of these places:
> >
> > 1)Samba ftp server (RPMs of latest stable samba for as many releases as I
> > have a machine to build on)
> > 2)contrib
> > 3)MandrakeClub
> > 4)PLF
> >
> > If any RPMs don't fit in one of those places, I dump them on
> > ranger.dnsalias.com. Ideally, these are the minority. I have left the RPMS
> > from before I decided on this up though.
> >
> > If all the non-Mandrakesoft people on this list didn't package, we would
> > all be the worse for it. People that come to mind are Oden, Goetz,
> > Olivier, Guillaume Rousse, but there are many more.
> >
> > At present there is a lot of duplication (and incompatible duplication) of
> > work between what you do, and what other Mandrake-related projects do. I
> > just don't see the point of seperately maintained and incompatible (using
> > different package names) packages.
> >
> > I would hope you reconsider your stance.
>
> I don't blame his stance. I'm pondering personally not contributing to
> Mandrake at all anymore after repeated issues that I've had with them.
> It's hard to justify taking the time to submit a package when you get
> rude responses or your package just plain gets ignored (still wondering
> if the bug fixes I made to the wireless-tools package will ever be
> uploaded). And that's only mentioning the issues with package
> submission.. I'm not even gonna get into the other issues with Mandrake
> in general.
>
> I'm starting to think that the effort of submitting packages is not
> worth the results.
>
> --
> Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://ben.reser.org
>
> "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard
> enough." - Jim Nichols
>
Thanks for packaging bbpager, much appreciated. Did not know that you
had updated wireless-tools. Does not work for me, maybe that is why
it is not up yet. Here is my attempt.
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -q wireless-tools
wireless-tools-25-1mdk
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -Uvh wireless-tools-25-3mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libiw25 is needed by wireless-tools-25-3mdk
libiw.so.25 is needed by wireless-tools-25-3mdk
[root@localhost tmp]#
