Mandrake,
A new glibc has recently appeared in the Mandrake-devel 'unsupported'
directory.
It is bad! Evidence:
[root@small glibc]# rpm -Uvh glibc-2.1.3-18.4mdk.i586.rpm
cannot read header at 0 for dependency check
[root@small glibc]#
This is after two downloads from the primary mirror in Oslo.
Further important questions:
1. Why are additions to this 'unsupported' directory not notified to
us in the Mandrake Change Log mailing list?
2. This glibc release consists of 3 RPMs:
glibc-2.1.3-18.4mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-profile-2.1.3-18.4mdk.i586.rpm
glibc-devel-2.1.3-18.4mdk.i586.rpm
Why were these not placed together under a new glibc subdirectory,
following the good example set by Chris Molnar for kde2.1Beta2? If
they were, all we would have to do is rpm -Uvh glibc* on that
subdirectory.
3. This 'unsupported' directory contains duplicate xpp RPMs:
xpp-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
xpp-1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm
This is an absolute NO-NO!
4. Why are not all the CUPS RPMs collected together into a cups
subdirectory so that we can simply do a cups upgrade from that
subdirectory with rpm -Uvh *.rpm?
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Regards,
Ron. [au]
