> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Arie Folger wrote:
> > clueless question: If you don't know who compiled the packages, and they
> > are in the contrib directory (which, AIUI, has looser upload policies),
> > how do you know the packages are trustworthy? Quite different from widely
> > distributed packages such as RedHat iso images, for which you can find
> > signatures on many independent hosts, and on RedHat's own servers.
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 13:22, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> It means that those packages don't have the reputation [read: QA] of
> redhat. So I figure that we'll have to wait for some brave people to try
> those packages on their machines.
Well, I am thinking of fulfilling that role (need to backup first). However,
before bothering with this, tell me... RedHat just came out with their beta.
The time between the last beta (Rosswell) and RH7.3 was a little less than a
month. I believe that limbo has been out since end of June of first few days
of July. Does that mean that 8.0 will be out in a matter of days? I don't
feel like bothering to install those packages just to see that a week later
RH8 is out. If I would have to wait for September, OTOH...
Anybody out there with good grapevine connections to RedHat? Is 8.0 for very
soon or only in September?
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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