On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:46, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> ביום חמישי, 30 באוקטובר 2003, 17:33, נכתב על ידי Gal Goldschmidt:

> most of the s/w comes in mdk9.2. other can be easily installed

So, it's compiling source rpms, right? 
Finding all the source RPM dependencies etc.....
Installing all the development packages needed, etc....
> 
> > Management:
> > APT based, so I can upgrade just about everything but the kernel, on-line.
> > Never have to reinstall/upgrade the OS offline.
> urpmi?
> anyway, you can use apt-get in mdk, it will use urpmi database.

I was using urpmi, it is nice, but it's much slower then APT and 
less flexible, just my feeling, I didn't compare every feature and timed it.

> do what i did a couple of times:
> updates the medias and update all rpms (worked from 8.1 to 9.0, and 9.2rc2 
to 
> 9.2  "final")
I did it once or twice, I got my system messed up so good that I had to 
reformat and install from scratch.
I had rpms from both distributions, with libraries from both and the worse 
thing configuration files from both, it did not managed to upgrade something 
because of some third party rpms I had and from there it was just downhill.

 
> > So do I have to compile everything and make a tar file distro?
> you can use stage 3. no compilation needed.
> no h/w autodetection. usb disk on key is not automagically mounted. 

Doesn't hotplug and a custom kernel solve it?

> 
> can anyone comment on fedora?
Fedora is at the unstable stage and it's not much different then RH, as much 
as I understand.

Bye
Gal


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