I'm afraid that I don't ever seem to make myself clear . . .
What I'm really trying to ask is . . .
How can I find out whether a given issue has been addressed in the
cooker / future Mandrake distribution, or not?
Questions like "is the mkisofs package still causing data corruption?"
are easily answered: I just download the latest "cooker" mkisofs package
and test it. (I did, and it's not fixed, but I just posted about that
with every programmer's favorite thing, a reproducable, self-verifying
test case.)
But questions like "is the installation program still incorrectly
limiting you to filling only 50% of the partition, even when /usr is on
a seperate partition?" are not possible to answer emperically like this
unless you have significant resources (a throwaway test computer and a
fast connection) that I don't happen to have handy.
I have this long list of installation issues; I sent them to civilme in
individual mail and he was kind enough to answer some of them but I'd
like some means other than bothering kind individuals to answer
questions of what is and isn't addressed already in the upcoming
edition.
And I'm still a bit confused about how information and fixes flow from
the expert list to the cooker list to the cooker RPMs to the official
Mandrake distribution.
I'll be happy to RTFM if somebody will just point me to TFM.
I figure there's surely some database of fixes applied already that I
could just search through? Or am I completely confused about the
process that would be involved here?
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Brian T. Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 3:38 PM
| Subject: [expert] Question on process / how things get into Mandrake
|
|
| >
| > Question on process . . .
| >
| > How do we know whether some feature / issue that's discussed here
| > actually makes it into the next release of Mandrake?
| >
|
| I doubt there is a secret cabal. Lowly me (not a programmer or a computer
| geek -- well, not a programmer) made a suggestion for a fix and it was
| fixed by Pixel or Axalon, I don't recall which. I have found the Mandrake
| people to be very responsive, although they are distracted at times. Do some
| little annoying things slip by? Sure. Do some little annoying things creep
| in? Sure. It's unfortunatley unrealistsic to expect a trouble-free distro.
| Your effort to go over the bug list and fix a few things is, I'm sure,
| welcomed and appreciated.
|
| Hoyt
|
|
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