ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc101 10.0 packages are there, but I don't update them any more. The reason is, that Packman people use lots of different ways to compile packages, with many different home made scripts. I use the SUSE supplied y2pmsh, which requires carefully written RPM spec files, with all the necessary requirements included. This uses a chrooted environment, and makes sure, that any
spent a lot of time on fixing up 10.0 packages, but finally I gave up, as some for some larger packages it took literally days to get them fixed, and it's not my only job :-) With 10.1 packman people finally spent a bit more time on better spec files, so I fix them more easily. I did not yet integrate PPC packages in the Packman website. It has a few reasons: - it does not generate yet the amount of traffic, which would justify to include it in a complex mirror infrastructure - it has many source RPMs modified, to fix dependency issues, add PPC
- PPC packages have different (usually fewer) dependencies, as other
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From: Peter Czanik
BTW: my machine is compiling Packman packages at the moment :-) Bye,
I've commented about this problem to others, but I would like to hear your thought on it. Why is it neccesssary to have a different RPM of every program for each linux distro as well as each version? It seems like a huge waste of resources to do it this way. On the Windows side, a program will install on most any version of windows or at least on W2k and XP. I've tried downloading and installing RPMs for other distros under SuSE, and sometimes it works, but more often than not it doesn't. I've gotten to the point that I just either install it from source or not update. Case in point, my desktop here as v9.2 on it. I had to hunt down an RPM for Firefox for it and install it. I had v1.5.0.3 on here. Then last night, I got a security update to v1.5.0.6 installed by YOU. I don't even know what it did. It definately should not have taken that long to get those updates...... Also, I am still trying to get the "Old World" mac support returned. Do you have any older Macs or know anything about the problems involved? I've offered to help test, but I'm not a programmer, so I can't just go in and fix something. Anyway, I was just wondering what your thoughts were on the matter. Thanx