8 Aug
2004
8 Aug
'04
5:54 a.m.
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:56, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
I finally gave up (in disgust) with RH8.0. Having had previous problems
with RPM in RH6.0 I figured I'd already wasted enough of my time
reinstalling. On the up-side, I can now drive cfdisk with my eyes shut.
that's why i'm thinking seriously as to whether it's worth the effort.
a lot of the gentoo misery can be eliminated with stage-3 tarballs
(almost complete precompiled binaries), and the KDE-libs, X, etc pain
ameliorated by building overnight.
sigh - perhaps i'll just stick with what's working....
R
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:33, robin fell wrote:
Early 2003. I was running Gentoo but was trying to reduce my admin
workload - hence investigating RH8.
Tried Planet, but based on RH meant endless RPM
database woes for me :(
Hmmm, not recently, right?
There were some problems in RH8 (or was it 9?) where sometimes rpm would
hang, but that was a while ago. 1. i've
not managed to break portage yet. this is numero-uno for me
because i killed MDK and RH several times - requiring a reinstall [note:
yes i do know about rpm dB locks and dB repair tools, but they failed to
fix my dB]
Yuck.... I guess I'm lucky. I've never gotten that far in breaking a
system through rpm alone. Just curious, which is the last version of
rh/fc you tried? I'm
currently considering a change of distro too - I spend too long on
admin issues, and not enough time hacking/recording.
Probably true of any distro if you want to use the latest versions of
audio packages (and who doesn't!). Let us know what you find...