[ snips ] On Saturday 27 December 2003 13:26, SN wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sorry, this message went to the wrong list, but thanks for the info about > > Mandrake. My experience with Mandrake Cooker in the past (2 years back) > > was that nothing was really cooked even medium rare, i.e. there was a lot > > of subtly broken stuff. Maybe they've improved with age. > > The problem is, that people mix cooker packges with stable packages, if yu > run stable and you just need 2 or 3 packages, then you should use the srpms > from cooker and recompile them.The reason why you should do it is: when you > install a unstable ackage in a gentoo box, you still compile it. > But if you install a package from cooker, the problem is if you install the > package some month after the initial stable release the cooker boxes have > already updated packages of glibc gcc perl etc. and if they compile the > packages now they get incompatible to the stable release, that is why lots > of packages don't work correctly on a stable box, therefore if you use > cooker there are two choices, either update everything or recompile certain > packages you want. > Now that makes sense. I had always wondered why Cooker RPMs worked so erratically. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
