Franki wrote:
>
> I can report that the postfix snapsnot I got off the site works great with
> 7.2
>
> only thing is you have to install it with --nodeps (it complains about db3,
> but the specfile is tellin it to use glibc-devel anyway, so it works great,
> its now going onto a couple of my boxes, and if there are no problems, it'll
> go on all of them.
>
> looks like samba is working as well...
>
> I want bind now, so I am gonna start playing with that.. (I think with
> regards to the rpms to give priority to, would be the various servers,, for
> the simple reasons that Mandrake 8 is fine for anyone as a desktop machines,
> its the server side that many of us are cautions about using 8 for... )
>
> rgds
>
> Frank.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2001 2:14 PM
> To: J. C. Woods
> Cc: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2
>
> On Mon Jul 30, 2001 at 01:46:21PM -0500, J. C. Woods wrote:
>
> > > I have plenty of room for these rpms and this is exactly the purpose
> > > of www.rpmhelp.net. Please visit the site for instructions on how to
> > > go about contributing packages... I have over 20GB of available room
> > > (but if we get that many files in there, we might want mirrors).
> > >
> > > http://www.rpmhelp.net/
> > >
> > > For an example of what the packages will look like, look at the
> > > sidebar Traktopel RPMS and Odyssey RPMS links.
> > >
> >
> > Michael, Franki, and Vincent,
> >
> > This is the kind of synergy that has resulted in Mandrake being the best
> > distro going (yes, hopefully as many as possible took advantage of
> > Mandrake's recent IPO). Vincent is willing to get involved so we now
> > have the beginning of a plan for providing a wider variety of src.rpm
> > files for LMDK7.2. I am willing to dedicate a test box running LMDK7.2
> > for this purpose. Obviously, to avoid duplication testing, some
> > coordination in who is testing what will be needed. I will also need
> > some time to install and setup the LMDK7.2 test box. In order to insure
> > test consistency, what are your thoughts on how it should be set up,
> > i.e. what base installation should exist prior to any testing of new
> > src.rpms?
>
> I would just install 7.2 and make sure you have all the security
> updates and other updates installed. I wouldn't worry about more than
> that. And trust me... there is absolutely nothing wrong with
> duplicate testing... if we didn't do duplicate testing on the
> security updates, we would find a lot more problems... even with the
> testing, bugs/issues do tend to creep in every once in a while.
>
> > I have both LMDK8.0 and LMDK7.2 servers runnning on my network, and I
> > agree with Vincent that both are very stable. However, for my
> > gateway/firewall server I have stayed with LMDK7.2 because of all of the
> > months of customizations that I have completed. One of the most
> > important being my rules for ipchains, and I am not ready to re-do this
> > work with the iptables in kernel-2.4. Just like you, Vincent, when I do
> > get ready to upgrade, I like to do a complete re-install of the newer
> > version. My past experience has taught me that this is the best way to
> > go.
>
> Yup. I suspect the upgrade path will be much better in the
> future... 8.0->8.1 should be a fairly painless upgrade, I think, due
> to all the work being done with library package naming and revisions,
> dependency issues, etc. But I don't think I would personally upgrade
> 7.2 to 8.0.
>
> > At any rate, let us all stay posted on how we want to handle the rpm
> > project. Special thanks to Vincent, and all the great folks at Mandrake
> > (hurry back, civileme, Vincent is working his butt off)
>
> hehehe... not really... =) Would be good to have civileme back, but
> I don't think I'm handling near as much as he would be... heck, the
> only reason I voiced anything here is because folks were talking about
> exactly what I had originally wanted rpmhelp.net to be about... so
> this was a little self-promotion for the site and a wakeup call to see
> that what I wanted for the community is something the community wanted
> for itself (which is very nice to see). I still expect you guys to do
> most of the work... =) I'm just willing to provide the space to store
> it all (and some pointers along the way if possible).
>
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Franki,
What site did you get the src.rpms for postfix from? Good luck, on the
bind 9 src rpms. I tried but kept coming up against the wrong rpmmacros,
and %REQUIRES_GLIBC-2_2. Let me know how it goes...
drjung
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Art is the illusion of spontaneity...
