Neal Pitts wrote:
>
> I found many packages were not safe to run, at least not without a lot
> of work involved to make them work. I downloaded many cooker packages
> just after installing 7.2 (only because I like breaking the software I
> depend on :)) only to find out they would not install normally. I
> ended up using rpm --upgrade --no-deps, and in the case of glibc, I had
> to add --noscripts. Having to run options like this is a bad thing in
> itself. While I found a few packages worked after using this method, I
> found most did not.
>
> My latest plan to run cooker is to download everything and attempt to
> build bootable cdroms with my burner. Unfortunatley, the only Sparc
> mirror I can find is rpmfind.net, and that is pretty slow lately. Many
> x86 sites seem to have acceptable speed, however.
I have a lot of cooker packages installed on my 7.2 system. I still have
7.2's gcc, glibc and libstdc++.
I download the cooker .src.rpm's and simply do a "rpm --rebuild" and
install them.
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