That doesn't make any sense. Rivendell according to you, 2.1.0, is not
beta. Another developer told me it was.

Now, someone else also told me that the 2.1.0 packages are not designed for
Ubuntu 11.10. Then why are they in the repositories for that version of
Ubuntu in the first place, in addition without a beta or alpha marker?

I am sorry for my attitude. Please do note though I've had NUMEROUS
problems with Rivendell before... in fact EVERY SINGLE TIME I've installed
Rivendell in any way including as an upgrade, I've had problems and had to
resort to support. That to me is rather unacceptable especially since I
have had a lot of experience and knowledge with computers. I feel that is
unnecessary. I feel there needs to be appropriate and specific, not to
mention updated, installation documentation, where everything you need to
know about the installation and all its bugs and problems are easily
located from the documentation page. I also feel the Rivendell packages
should be more stable before they're put into the repositories, and NOT to
include them in the repositories for any distros that have not been tested
(or if they are included, having an alpha or beta marker, or being placed
in its own separate "testing only/unstable" repository).

Anyway, I am going to try a symlink as suggested by someone else. Thanks
for your clarifications.

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Fred Gleason <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2011, at 09:41 15, Patrick Schmalstig wrote:
>
> > ...and why didn't Rivendell put "beta" in their version number in the
> deb packages? That's a huge inconvenience.
>
> Because that version (2.1.0) of "Rivendell" (as released by the project of
> that name) isn't a 'beta' version.  It works quite well on a number of
> different distros.
>
>
> > ...and I am not going back to 11.04 Ubuntu just to run Rivendell... I
> already wiped out my system recently from a hard drive problem... I don't
> want to have to wipe it out yet again.
>
> Well Patrick, you have a couple of options here.  You can run Rivendell on
> a distro where the integration and testing work has been done for you
> already (such as Ubuntu 11.04 or CentOS 5), or you can try going 'bleeding
> edge' on a distro that's never been tried before, in which case you'll be
> doing that integration work yourself.  That's the nature of FOSS.  In
> either case, cocking an attitude towards those who are trying to help you
> here (and who are, I might add, doing so entirely voluntarily) is probably
> not a real smart strategy.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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