On Tuesday 10 July 2001 02:32 am, civileme wrote:
> KIndly look at
>
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/
>
> We will be testing against this for next release.
>
> 8.0 made many problems. First, during its development, we had to backport
> updates to 7.2, because Cooker was not available to 7.2 users except those
> who broke their systems by installing glibc2.2.
>
> We took steps that this situation would not happen again by adopting a
> policy for library naming and consequently changing packaging policy to
> match, so new libraries could be added with impunity.
>
> Reiser fs was changed in kernel 2.4. If you install reiser for 2.4 you may
> _not_ downgrade to the 2.2 kernel. I have a post on MandrakeForum about
> how to install 2.2 kernel on 8.0 with Reiserfs
>
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754&lang=en
>
> And this allows an upgrade later. So far, it appears that the Reiser
> supplied with 2.2 is more stable by far and we came close to breaking the
> kernel with all the patches to get the new reiser to work, nfs taking the
> heavy hit.
>
> But I do see a lot of complaining about incompatibilities here and
> elsewhere. Well , software grows and changes. The same folks complaining
> about incompatibilities are often downloading tarballs or i386 rpms for
> other distros to get packages that they can find with i586.mdk directly in
> /contribs. Then, when asked, "Well, I wanted the latest version" Then,
> when shown the latest version in cooker, "But that's untested!" Well,
> where do they think we got the package to repackage for cooker?
>
> Anyway, we are advocates of standards. There are precisely two distros
> where the menus are as identical as possible across window managers, and
> ours is one of them. Of course some folks who develop desktops have their
> own ideas about that and decided we "aren't a priority" though we gave them
> all our info, so we lack the availability of a desktop that wants to do
> things their way. Eventually, standards will be developed for those things
> (there arlready are some, as in how Window managers should communicate) and
> the issue will become a non-issue.
>
> Open standards can enhance development efforts and provide room for
> creativity and for long-lived software. We hope to see those sorts of
> standards adopted. As you will note in the link, there is a place to post
> comments for the LSB.
>
> Civileme
My question is, a while back we were advised NOT to use cooker packages,
are we then able to use them in 8.0??????
