[linrad] Re: Linux distributions

[richard <blueyonder.co.uk; richard.bown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

leif@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
>
> > If you use tar balls to blat over a stable system that uses RPM ,and has all the svgalib packages
> > available as RPMs its asking for trouble.
>
> Why is that? The RPM does not do its job properly, I would not think 
> the RPM is put together by the svgalib people. 
> By the way, what is the version number of svgalib in the RPM you have?
libsvgalib1-1.9.21-1mdk, libsvgalib1-devel-1.9.21-1mdk, svgalib1-1.9.21-1mdk
I'll find out who the packager is for Mandriva
> > I spend a lot of my time sorting out systems were someone has blatted a tar ball over the top of a 
> > RPM data base, which then loses all its info on updates, the dependency tables are then corrupted.
>
> You might have to correct the mistake of trying to use RPM for svgalib
> by removing svgalib using your RPM tools. This is just to prevent
> the RPM tools from trying to make an update in case you do something
> like "update all".
>
>
> > Mandriva make use extensively of URPMI, if you urpmi <package> it will not only go and get the 
> > package but install all its dependencies.
>
> Maybe, and in Debian it is "apt-get install <package>" and who knows
> what under Fedora, Puppy, ........
>
> Linrad is still a single man project. I can not learn the special
> tools of every distribution and supply a lot of different packages.
> It is the same for Matan who makes svgalib.
I'm very aware of that Leif
> > I've tried many times to get linrad to run, and the only conclusion I come to each time is ,one 
> > computer for linrad and another for everything else.
>
> Mandrake has always been the easiest to install. I can not imagine
> Mandriva would be a problem.
I think it s become a problem due to its habit of supplying the newest packages
> > You have done such good work with linrad Leif, its such a shame to the platforms it can run on diminish.
> > As a temp fix mknod statements can be added to rc.local, but really it needs attention paid to the 
> > way the hotplug daemons behave.
>
> Why is that? I am pretty sure the fix already present in Linrad
> will work under Mandriva. Download is very slow, maybe I know
> on tuesday:-)

OK
> By the way, the fix is a file in rc1.d, rc2.d, ....
> I use the same fix for installing the appropriate module for 
> SDR-14 although I do not yet have the source code for the
> ft245 driver under Linux-2.6.xx kernels so I can only
> use the SDR-14 hardware under 2.4.xx kernels.
>
>
> 73
>
> Leif

Richard

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