I'm going to avoid Chris's RPMS on principle anyway, because they are are not
properly marked as alpha code [yes there's  a date stamp, but this doesn't make
it clear its CVS code]. This pollotes systems in future once KDE 2.1 is
actually out, as well as screwing up future depencencies.

The more conventional way of naming CVS RPMs is as follows:
kdebase-0.0.20001210-1mdk.i586.rpm

Rather than
kdebase-2.1-0.20001210.2mdk.i586.rpm

Mike

civileme wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 December 2000 02:13, you wrote:
>
> > > Mike MacCana wrote:
> > > Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there
> > > is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install
> > > them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1
> > > soemtime in the future, and the version numbers will screw
> > > up dependencies.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > Mike....that's odd, the ones I downloaded from nebsllc.com
> > were all designated as 2.0.1-0.1mdk
>
> Lessee,
>
> Chris's rpms at the NEBS site are from the CVS tree on the way to 2.1  While
> they predate the 2.0.1 release date, they are from the CVS after the feature
> freeze for 2.0.1 and well on the way to 2.1.
>
> Chris's rpms in Cooker which are compatible only with someone running Cooker
> are a 2.1prerelease.  The version nembers are not bad, but you WILL break
> things if you point MandrakeUpdate there and try a living upgrade of 7.2,
> because the packages are incompatible with 7.2.
>
> Mandrake's rpms in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported on your favorite mirror are
> KDE 2.0.1 release modified to work with the Mandrake system.  You won't find
> KMenuEdit, KAppfinder, or Ksysv there.  You will break some (eventually)
> self-repairing things if you Update using MandrakeUpdate from KDE.  The
> README file is in the nature of a pre-emptive strike so you can nudge the
> repair routines into action before cron does.
>
> Civileme
>
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