RPM

[John W]

I am curious about the different experiences everyone is having with
Mandrake myself. I like some goodies in Mandrake but as Hans mentioned
I have trouble running KDE on my system. I have heard alot of talk
about Debian and have become increasingly interested in giving it a
try although, I've heard the install can be brutal and I am a Linux
newbie. I don't want to cross any lines regarding the various distros
though I would be interested in advice with Debian and my newness to
GNU/Linux
Thanks,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: RPM


> Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte Rod Roark so:
>
> > Hmm, my wife has been on 7.1 for a while without incident.  Of
course
> > I never use rpmdrake, just rpm from the command line.  I'd be
interested
> > to hear any more details about what's broken.
>
> The main things I'm running into are a somewhat hosed X setup (that
> might've been me not understanding how Mandrake is setup, but
Mandrake is
> definitely hosed for KDE on a small, low-quality monitor) and probs
with
> the admin packages. LinuxConf does what it's supposed to (for the
most
> part), but generally dumps core when it exits. Guess that counts as
> exiting :).
>
> rpmdrake is massively hosed and won't work. Several regexps in
> /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia won't work. It's calling wget with illegal
URLs
> [1]. rpmdrake doesn't allow for specifying where on a CD to find the
> repository, but /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia needs that info to
> function. There are also several other errors I haven't looked at.
They
> could be in another function, but they cause rpmdrake to not work.
>
> I've run into several other probs, but don't know if they're
Mandrake
> being hosed or me not understanding how Mandrake's setup.
>
> Not having apt-get is definitely broken. OTOH one of the GUI tools
claims
> to support using debs, so maybe I can do a Mandrake->debian
conversion :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> [1] wget -O /local/path/and/file.cz2
http://somehost.domain/some/path/
> with ../base/hdlist.cz2
>
> "http://somehost.domain/some/path/ with ../base/hdlist.cz2" is not a
valid
> URL. Also they don't check that "http://somehost.domain/some/path/"
has a
> trailing slash.
>
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