Well given that this isnt built into the base distrubtion, Its really not mandrake its self. Some one who does not know this isnt going to sit down and mandrake and be able to aquire the software.
In my mind there appears to be 2 type of distros, those that release in a point fashion and those that are continuous. I can see the point if you are trying to comericalise a distrubtion. But its a major pain not have access to upgrade packages inside the standard installation method of your distro (redhat and mandrake do provide bug fix releases but not feature upgrades to any great extent). On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:30, James Gregory wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 22:21, Ben de Luca wrote: > > doing this: > > > > > > urpmi mplayer && urpmi xine && urpmi .... > > > > > > Can you ? I will admit I havnt played with mandrake for a about 9 months but > > at that point, the amoiunt of software available was not up today or any > > where near as extenive as what is/was available in gentoo. And I know > > redhats much smaller and more out of date that mandrakes (though I dig what > > rh has done on the gui side). > > > > are the packages that urpmi from mandrake? > > Ok, it operates very much like debian in that it has a "sources list", > which is just a list of places it can pull packages from. For me I have > the standard mandrake cooker packages, the cooker contributed packages, > packages from "plf" (http://plf.zarb.org - 1337 linux w4r3z) and some > packages from a dude called texstar (quite random. He seems to just > build random software and drop it onto this really deeply buried > directory on ibiblio. Has stuff like the Macromedia Flash plugin amongst > other things). Which covers *most* of the stuff I need. Not quite all. I > tend to make packages for software I get from source and try to get them > to other people. Something I unfortunately(?) have little time for these > days. > > And Mandrake did this 9 months ago. I didn't trust it so much back then, > but it would have worked for your stated example of installing a few > video players. > > See my presentation about mandrake and packaging love: > > http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~jgre4014/slug/ > > There's also a couple of screenshots there of the gui frontend to urpmi. > > > > > > on my mandrake box? Indeed I can also get stuff like the win32 dlls for > > > avifile if I need to decode something exotic with a similar command. > > > > > > > > And how is it different to using up2date on redhat? > > > > > > > > > ... I'm missing something. How is emerge better than > > > urpmi/apt-rpm/up2date? > > > > ive spent more time in redhat land of late and there is no way that u2date > > if going to go and get me the latest version of xine, or mplayer (infact if > > it gets them at all havnt they had mp3 removed?) > > surely that's a function of where you tell it to get packages from? > > re: mp3, I'm listening to one right now. Don't know what redhat does. > > James. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
