[wellylug] Gentoo

[Tom Peck]

Damon Lynch wrote:

>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.
>
Yes, that makes sense.. Usually an rpmfind would locate a 'cooker' type 
rpm - I never really knew what they were though..  Never mind.

>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.
>
Thanks.  Will notify if I no longer feel it is a worthwhile distro :-).

Tom


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