[bt-devel] Packages for mandrake

[Lamar Owen]

On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:47, Joachim Ansorg wrote:
> The best would be to offer the RPM made on a unchanged system, which means
> with standard KDE.
> Is this possible?

That is why I keep a build system running with a pristine copy of Red Hat 8 
(plus updates) for RPM building.  I have been down the road of RPM's that 
didn't install for people because of software changes -- I have a much better 
argument for them when I can say 'it was built on pristine Red Hat 8 -- 
what's different about *your* system?'

Of course, YMMV, but if I had a copy of the relevant Mandrake here I might put 
up a slow build box to run it.  In fact, I am doing something similar to that 
right now -- I constantly get requests for oddball old stuff for PostgreSQL, 
so I acquired an Evergreen Systems CAPserver 2045, which has 10 complete 
Pentium 83 systems in its enclosure.  Slow: but will work for build hosts.  I 
just have to configure it properly. (Each system is a single ISA card with 
kbd, mouse, video, serial, and 10Base-T ports on the backplate, and has IDE 
and floppy connectors on it.)  Now I just have to acquire the required number 
of hard drives....

Of course, it is my conscious decision to not work with the latest and 
greatest -- and, frankly, my mouth waters for KDE 3.1; but I make that 
tradeoff. YMMV, of course.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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