[oclug] RPM dependency hell

[Ken Dyer]

Piss on RPMFIND try getting it from the source baby!

http://www.sourceforge.org


Ken Dyer 


http://www.springtime.dyndns.org



> "Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
> > 
> > On 01/03/02 Gilles J. Seguin did speaketh:
> [...]
> > > The rpmfind.net site with searching for /lib/libssl.so.0.9.6b
> > > will give you the package for your distribution
> > 
> >     Oh, don't get me started on rpmfind.net.
> 
> Well, you get me very interested in earing that story.
> 
> > They seem to have no standards of
> > the quality of the packages that get installed there.
> 
> Are you explicitely saying that others distributions
> are of no quality at all.
> 
> > I've spent days fixing
> > my system due to packages from rpmfind.net. Never again.
> 
> I am very lost, my english is bad and my understand
> nothing on how to allow upgrade.
> 
> I need following information.
> - what was the distribution you were on, ex.: debian
> - why the package was not available for distribution,
>   in fact which package it is.
> - what was the goal of the exercise
> 
> You say that the system was broken, can you be more specific.
> I want to learn from your experience.
> 
> > > >     On Debian, it's all just magickal, and it works. Try 
upgrading gnucash
> > > > without apt. Have fun.
> > 
> >     Mike
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Ken Dyer

http://www.springtime.dyndns.org

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste, so recompile often"

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