On Monday 25 December 2000 13:02, you wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
> > If it were that simple you would see it in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported
> > where we put updates that do not qualify as critical or security.
>
> Is unsupported a response to reported bugs (same version but a higher
> mdk patch level) or is it just a mandrake release of a a new
> developer's version (version upgraded, mdk level set to 1, plus
> still-relevant mdk patches) and compiled with and for the 7.2 gcc and
> glibc?
>
> These must be specific to 7.2? If so it is very strange that there
> is no /7.2/ in the path. What will happen when the incompatible 7.3
> (if not onward compatible it should be 8.0, of course) has been
> released? Answer: then you will need unsupported/7.2/i586/ and
> unsupported/7.3/i586/.
>
> Or am I missing something?
Yep you are. Normally cooker has been an unofficial source of updates for
users of the current release. Technology changes prohibited that this time
(glibc, rpm4, etc) so /Mandrake-devel/unsupported was born for those things
which did not belong in updates (neither critical nor security related). It
is seldom that the newer packages will be so totally incompatible with the
current release, at least for those who know how to use ln -s, so the
/unsupported will be there as a _courtesy_ for updates at developers'
discretion. Most of the packages will only see a smoke test, but of course
KDE2.01 was an exception. Even so, it was so rushed that a new version of
kdelibs (2mdk) had to be made later because the originals would fail on a
conflict if kdelibs-devel wasn't included in the rpm -F *.rpm.
So /unsupported will be for the current release. When the current release
changes, /unsupported will be created anew and perhaps the old one moved to
the archives for the previous release, depending on space availability.
Anyway, ftp://mandragon.org/pub/mandrake has the efforts of a user for
XFree-4.0.2, and it does accept anonymous logins, though it has had a couple
of episodes where permissions needed work.
Early results on 4.0.2 is that 3D accel is broken for all cards. That's one
of the reasons it isn't appearing in /unsupported
Civileme
