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Re: More up-to-date RPMS [was:Re: 4.0 Fixes]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Oct 21 18:39:10 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 10:53:27 +0200
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[psci@teleport.com]
| A better idea - would be to see the RedHat team update *.rpms for apps
| more quickly as the authors update and bugfix their programs. That would
| mean you and I would not be forced to update our programs with non-rpm
| versions (when we desire those bugfixes and/or new features). We could
| then do an ftp install/update of the new rpms :-)
Take a look in /pub/Incoming and /pub/redhat/contrib - people already
build RPMs. And if there isn't a RPM of some software you feel is
important (or an important upgrade has been made)- make a RPM
yourself, and put it in /pub/Incoming for others to enjoy.
BTW: If you look in their devel-directory, you'll often find new
versions made by the Red Hat team in the development of the next Red
Hat release (not so many updates now- Colgate is fairly new).
And you have discovered their updates-directory? This is bugfixed
packages.
But I would second the idea that they could look into selling CDs with
the most updated version- i.e. the latest released version + the
updates (the updates-dir is rather huge FTTB). It's a Bad Thing that
you get a distribution with less installation hassles and less bugs if
you buy Red Hat from Infomagic.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
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