On Saturday 05 October 2002 12.12, Adrian Schroeter wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 04 October 2002 23.41, Anthony Moulen wrote:
For anyone who is interested and has noticed that the kdenetwork stuff is missing from the beta RPM collection I am attaching a spec file. To use
Wouldn't it be better if SuSE simply pulled these severely broken rpms from the ftp site. beta rpms should never, never, ever overwrite the "production" version. As long as people see them in a semi-official ftp directory, they
You should never never install beta on a production system.
Indeed. Perhaps "production" was the wrong word to use. What I meant was the non-beta version. In this case kde 3.0.2 or 3.0.3.
Use YOU and no more packages, if you want to have a stable production system.
I agree. But the purpose of beta packages is to get people to test them, no? How many people will test the next beta if this one wiped their non-beta installation? As I said, no previous beta has behaved like this.
(I had 1 day time for these packages, our testers had no time at all for them ...)
If the beta packages are broken in the sense that they don't work I'm not complaining. I haven't complained in the past and I won't complain in the future. A beta is a beta and people realize that. But when they're broken in the sense that they overwrite non-beta parts of the system, that's too much. Better then that the packages aren't released at all. //Anders