RPM

[Furmanek, Greg]

Mandrake 7 was pretty decent.  There were some 
small problems with install but it was much 
better then the 7.1.

After upgrading Mandrake version of RPM it stooped working.
I have head problems with some config stuff and with
routing.  I think I am ready to reload with RedHat and
to custom distro.

I was going to look into Debian but It seems they are
little slow with updates to newer versions of kernel.

I have played with RH Caldera and Mandrake.
RH seems to be a base for everything so it should
be a good platform for a custom setup.

The Wolf


-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: John W [mailto:wisdom04@home.com]
-> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:50 PM
-> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
-> Subject: Re: RPM
-> 
-> 
-> 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.
-> >
-> > --
-> > #  der.hans@LuftHans.com   home.pages.de/~lufthans/   www.Opnix.com
-> > # HERE LIES LESTER MOORE
-> > # SHOT 4 TIMES WITH A .44
-> > # NO LES
-> > # NO MOORE
-> > #        -- tombstone, in Tombstone, AZ
-> >
-> >
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