On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:58, David E. Fox wrote: > > Q: what's the difference between doing it with a cooker directory and a > > release directory? > > A: Someone at MandrakeSoft changed the label from cooker to release. > > Hint: they didn't tell urpmi about that. > > Hmm. An interesting approach, but it's dependent on timing. If one > would updagte to cooker ASAP after ann announcement of rc2 or what > have you, then essentially it's the same thing; but it would seem that > cooker is always a moving target, whereas a 'reference' rc2 source > would be a static snapshot of rc2. >
there's two points there: one is that urpmi doesn't know that the source you gave it is a distro, two is that if you did want to go from cooker to a release or from a release to cooker, the time to do it is right after release. ... > I'm speaking mostly from conjecture, to be sure, since I've never seen > a real (i.e., Debian) apt-get session in action. The attempts I've > tried with a Mandrake version of the tool have been mostly not very > productive. (not in getting the tool per se, but in using it > effectively) I messed with Debian for a while in VMware because I was building LEAF packages which required Debian Slink as a build environment (target media for LEAF is a floppy disk, and some very clever work arounds allowing modern kernels hadn't been done yet). I gave up on Debian in disgust when I used apt-get to fix a security problem in gcc and it helpfully upgraded the kernel and glibc to a version that made my build environment useless. urpmi occassionally makes decisions I don't like to, but at least it tells you what it has in mind and lets you cancel. ... > > it'd go fairly smoothly if you did glibc and gcc first, then tried to do > > the rest of the distribution though. > > Year, and then try to avoid conflicts and dependency issues. > I'm not in a big hurry, looks to me like a fine way to toast package management. ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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