[wellylug] Gentoo

[Tom Peck]

And remind me to find out why my clock keeps screwing itself...


Tom Peck wrote:

>Damon Lynch wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>Yes, that makes sense.. Usually an rpmfind would locate a 'cooker' type 
>rpm - I never really knew what they were though..  Never mind.
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>>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.
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>>Anyway, good luck with Gentoo.
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>Thanks.  Will notify if I no longer feel it is a worthwhile distro :-).
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>Tom
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