On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Bastian Friedrich wrote:
Forget about SuSE built rpm's and srm's anyway.
Why should I? If I want a SuSE, I take a SuSE - if I want to do things myself, I can take Slackware or Debian... Any package on my system compiled from tarballs renders the rpm databases useless.
Well, the discussion is pointless. I believe that every distribution has its (dis)advantages and one just uses the one distri they have gotten accustomed to. It is just a matter of personal taste and should not be a political issue. I personally use 2 distributions and learned both of them and run servers with both just fine. You will still have to tweak here and there to get the system tuned and secure but you will always have to do this.
I highly advise that you'd use this method too, since thus you also get around SuSE's plain stupidity (sorry folks, gotta
Ooops.
I agree, this is not a valid input :-) What I did see is that the RPM database was somehow not quite up-to-date, I should not be able to update e.g. wu-ftpd which is an rpm for 6.0 on an 5.3 system, but I was nevertheless able to do it (No, I didn't use --force :) Of course it didn't work. I hope the 3.0 in 6.2 is better, just installed 6.2 on a PPro200-leafnode. Works great, what can I say?! Lets just see how things turn out. Uwe -- ][ Uwe Hahn http://www.robin.de/~uwe/ Linux? Yes! ][ ][ Spiel, Spaß, Spannung: http://www.robin.de/ ][ ][ Rödermark, Germany e-mail: uwe@hahn.RoBIN.de ][