Michael Carmack writes: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:30:05PM -0500, crimson wrote: >> >> This is the worse advse I have ever heard given. What is wrong with >> Redhat 6.1? I should not have to be running the latest version in order >> to be able to compile a damn program! >> >> Better advise would be to tell him look on freshmeat for what he needs. >> >> And then upgrade it. > > Whoa, easy there. I suspect the assumption made here was that the user > doesn't know _how_ to upgrade. I don't run Redhat, but those looked like > pretty basic dependency problems--the kind of stuff you should be able > to upgrade via RPM. By the looks of things, the person who asked the > question isn't fluent in the language of RPM, or else he/she would have > resolved these dependencies and moved on. I suppose a busy Courier > developer is faced with two choices in cases like this: > > 1. Start explaining how to get stuff via RPM, where to find the packages, > how to resolve further dependency problems when the packages that need > to be upgraded in turn require _other_ packages to be upgraded, and > how to fix the system when one of those "upgrades" installs a library > or executable that ends up breaking 75% of the system... > > OR > > 2. Tell the person to grab the latest (free) Redhat CD, and reinstall > the OS. > Actually, doesn't RedHat have the up2date program that connects to the redhat server and automatically downloads the latest versions of all installed packages (except the kernel updates, which are rather trickier to install).
True, you have to register with them, and can only have one of your boxes active for updates at a time (unless you pay a sub), but you can change the active box as often as you like, even several times a day, It even emails you when it thinks you need an update (to fix a security hole, for example) - though obviously only for the active box... -- Bill Michell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
