29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
7:50 p.m.
PlanetCCRMA is a great idea and a great tool, but its
rpms are quite
generic, so you may have problems if they are dynamically linked
to old libraries (glibc most notably). That's why it's best to
use rpms designed specifically for your distro AND your version of
that distro.
Regarding dynamic linking, I don't quite see what the problem might be.
Maybe you are not aware that Planet CCRMA rpms currently come in three
"flavors", 7.2, 7,3 and 8.0, each one being a separate repository. PlanetCCRMA is a really great tool, and most of its
rpms should run on
most distros.
That is very optimistic (the part about having them running on other
distros, of course :-), I don't think they would (or should). I would
not recommend doing that, at most if the other distro does not have what
you need you could rebuild from the src.rpm.
However, Mandrake users shouldn't need them,
since we
(volunteers) spend countless hours providing current rpms that work
flawlessly (almost) because they are specifically designed for the
current version of Mandrake, and include goodies like extra
documentation, menu entries, MIME types, and easy rebuilding.
Of course!
But I think all the exact same things can be said of the Planet CCRMA
rpms :-) They are specifically designed for the supported versions of
RedHat, and they do include extra documentation (when available and/or
when I am aware of it), menu entries and assorted goodies :-) And of
course source rpms are available so it is easy to rebuild them as well,
or so I hope...
-- Fernando