Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This approach never works well with Red Hat. Unless you really know > what you're doing, installing stuff by hand will result in eventual > system instability, and random problems. I do not recommend that anyone > running Red Hat attempt to install any system-level software by hand. > At the minimum any stuff should be installed via RPM, and only if the > installed package is built properly.
This won't cause problems in this particular case. Their gdbm-1.8.0 RPM installs libgdbm.so.2, gdbm-1.8.3 installs libgdbm.so.3, so they're separated. The gdbm maintainers BTW think it's ok to bump just the patchlevel even if the ABI changes... "the API is unchanged". Clueless. -- Matthias Andree ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
