I love Gentoo also. May I add that it even keeps track of your dependancies
and automatically graps dependant packages if you need them. I had so much
frustration with RPMs and dependancies. The other great thing about Gentoo
is the control over what you want on your system. It's sort of like LFS on
steroids.
SSA Ernie Baca
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Customs Investigations
RAIC / Phoenix, Arizona
ebaca@linux-forensics.com
www.linux-forensics.com
>From: Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: PLUG <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Re: C Libraries
>Date: 13 Jul 2003 09:28:25 -0700
>
>It is for this reason that I hate rpm-based distros. Not to start a
>distro war or anything but I too ran Mandrake for awhile. I was running
>8.2 and waiting for 9.2 to come out before I upgraded. During the time I
>was waiting for 9.2 (no longer waiting), I tried out Gentoo
>(http://www.gentoo.org) on another box. Heaven! Everything is always up
>to date and compiled with just what you specify. Yes, that can be a
>downside for slow boxes, having to compile everything from source but on
>the faster boxes (Duron 800 and up), it's bliss because you can specify
>various compile flags to optimise for your very hardware.
>Sorry for the ramble but, my point is: After trying Gentoo linux, my
>patience for RPM (and Mandrake) went straight to zero and I upgraded all
>my production servers to Gentoo as soon as I could (about a week of
>downtime each) but well worth it to keep up with various security
>exploits etc.
>
>On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 09:02, ShieldX wrote:
> > Ah yes, thank you, I knew I'd forgotten something,
> > Here goes...
> > I'm running libgcc3.0-3.0.4-2mdk,
> > gcc-c++-2.96-0.76mdk,
> > gcc-2.96-0.76mdk,
> > and gcc-cpp-2.96-0.76mdk
> > on Mandrake 8.2 at present.
> >
> > I do not know if all those are relevant but they're some of the
> > things that are on the dependencies list:
> >
> > [root@shredder clib]# ls
> > glibc-2.3.2-5mdk.i586.rpm libstdc++-devel-3.3-7.i386.rpm
> > libstdc++-3.3-7.i386.rpm
> > [root@shredder clib]# rpm -Uvh ./*
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > initscripts < 6.91-18mdk conflicts with glibc-2.3.2-5mdk
> > libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3) is needed by libstdc++-3.3-7
> > glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-8mdk
> > glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by locales-2.3.1.2-8mdk
> > glibc = 2.2.4 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.4-25mdk
> > [root@shredder clib]#
> >
> > ------
> > Is that of any help? <:-)
> >
> >
> > Eric.
> >
> >
> >
> > =======================
> > >I think that you'll need to tell us a little bit more. For the most
> > >part, you don't want to upgrade your glibc anything but minor versions,
> > >more than that can be a real pain.
> > >
> > >What applications are you trying to run?
> > >What are the errors?
> > >Which distribution are you running?
> > >
> > > --Ted
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>Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
>CoBryce Communications
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