On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:15:23 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On April 14, 2005 09:32, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 Apr 2005 16:09, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > > Notice the comment about thac's RPMs - perhaps better to disable > > > his repository then? > > > > I did, some time ago. Nothing against Thac, but I'm guessing that > > he compiles them against a 'cooked' system. The only time I tried > > one I got seriously messed up. > > > > Anne > > Same here. After adding Thac's 10.1 rpms as one of my urpmi sources > and doing an "urpmi --auto-select" I had no end of problems. I ended > up re-installing. Things as basic as the dialog for changing the > screen background were broken. > > Thac's site doesn't say anywhere that I saw that these are cooker > based rpms, but it would probably explain the problem. Whenever I > tried to run one of the broken programs from the command line I got > errors about missing symbols. IIUC, this happens when a program is > modified and compiled against newer libraries, but the dependencies > are not correctly updated (if the dependencies were updated, urpmi > would complain during install). > > Bottom line, I would recommend staying away from Thac's site unless > you are feeling really adventurous and/or enjoy reinstalling. > > -- > Ron > ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net > > Opinions expressed here are all mine. > > "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. > I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green > I am almost certain some of thac's rpms were used in my Ksirc upgrade which no longer works ... and I am too new to fiddle :-) -- Registered linux user # 386597 A friend may well be a masterpiece of nature. Emerson
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