Texstar has Evo 1.2.1 available if you wish to go the apt/synaptic way for Mandrake.
Michael Biddulph Brisbane Australia On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 6:05 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Jack, > > what you say makes perfect sense to me. It was not what I wished to > hear, but it is very logical and wise. > > So, anyone has an idea of when Mdk will package its own Evolution 1.2 ? > > /stefano > > Jack Coates wrote: > >Speaking from experience, something will break. I've been there. There's > >a reason why Red Carpet includes system update channels for your distro > >in addition to the desktop channel and any products you purchased... > >it's because they're creating an update path which has potential to be > >(and therefor eventually is) incompatible with the path provided via > >Mandrake. > > > >In a way this points to another weakness of RPM, which is the ability to > >specify dependencies with something like foobar version >= 2.0. > >foobar2-1 and foobar-2-0.1 will fail, even though they have the right > >code inside them. Get two different distributors of the same libraries > >going on the same system, and sooner or later you're going to break > >something. > > > >If you go with Red Carpet, trust Ximian to do everything for you and > >quit using urpmi/rpmdrake. If you want to stick with urpmi/rpmdrake, > >then wait for Mandrake to package the rpms or build Ximian applications > >from .tgz. > > > >On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:27, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > >>Ok, I understand your point and I sympathize. > >> > >>But, let's put my question in another form: which is the risk of > >>installing some of the GNOME packages that are said to be required by > >>the new Evolution 1.2 and which are not signed by Mandrake ? > >> > >>If I install "libgtkhtml20, 1.0.4-6.ximian.1" as proposed by the new > >>Evolution, where currently I have "1.0.4-4mdk", > >>what will it happen when Mandrake will publish a version "1.0.4-6mdk" > >>or, anyway, a new version ? > >> > >>/stefano > >> > >>Jack Coates wrote: > >>>On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 10:45, Robert Goshko wrote: > >>>>On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:09, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > >>>>>Rob, > >>>>> > >>>>> if you downloaded all the packages, then you manually did what Red > >>>>>Carpet did ! > >>>>>I mean, you installed some other packages that could, one day, > >>>>> conflict with the ones from Mandrake. > >>>>>Am I correct ? > >>>> > >>>>Stefano, > >>>> > >>>>In theory, but from some of the postings I've seen on the Ximain User > >>>>mailing list, this seems to vary. I hear lots of people complaining > >>>>about how "Red Carpet did this and that to my system". > >>>> > >>>>I have never tried it so I cannot tell you first hand. I am always a > >>>>little "weary" of "just push the button and we will download what you > >>>>need and install it" software, call me old fashioned, but if the system > >>>>is going to get pooched, I would like to do it myself, at least I'll > >>>>know exactly what I did. > >>> > >>>The thing about RPM auto-installers (urpmi too) is that they work fine > >>>when a distribution is fresh. The problems arise when you want to > >>>install new stuff on said distribution and have to update 7/10ths of the > >>>system to satisfy dependencies that may or may not actually exist in the > >>>world outside of the RPM database. > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> > >>>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >>>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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