> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 1:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Red Hat vs Mandrake
>
> I do not recall the rpm other than that it was one of the
> ubiquitous software sets like XFree or glibc, but I tried
> replacing a few of my central RH rpms with those i586-
> optimized versions from Mandrake. It screwed my system
> overall but worse, one of these rpms wouldn't install
> and produced a message that it required a Mandrake install!
>
> What the hell is that about? I have NEVER come across
> any message with any software package that I needed
> to have a Redhat or Openlinux or Debian install. It's
> one thing, quite appropriate, to get messages about
> dependencies, it is NOT appropriate to state that I
> must have a particular version of linux installed,
> particularly when it IS a ubiquitous package otherwise.
>
>
GlibC is your problem... Mandrake 6.0 did not use the same version as RH
6.0.
This changed with 6.1...
Anyways..
Many rpm's look for the "release" rpm. If they see Redhat, the RPM's
install...
Mandrake replaces this RPM with one titled Mandrake-Linux... thus the
installs fail.
All you have to do is FORCE the install of the REDHAT "release" rpm and you
are good to go.
Note that this may cause some Mandrake RPM's to fail to install.
Mandrake SHOULD go back to using the Redhat RELEASE rpm instead...
-JMS
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