[wellylug] Gentoo

[Damon Lynch]

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 18:01, Tom Peck wrote: 
Yes, I tried urpmi. But I still couldn't upgrade PHP without upgrading a
multiude of other installed packages - which ended up breaking the 
system :-(.  Probably just a bad unfortunate experience - but it put me
off.


It sounds like you upgraded your package from cooker, which means that
things will be broken some of the time.  That's how it works.  The trick
is to find a package that someone has compiled for the version, not
cooker, and use that.  That way, any dependencies will be expected to be
stable.

For instance that's how I upgraded to Mozilla 1.0 -- grabbed it off the
server of one of the Mandrake "gurus" and there were few dependencies,
all of which were easily resolved.  Had I got it off cooker it would
have been a disaster, esp. since they're now using a different version
of GCC.

Anyway, good luck with Gentoo.

Damon

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