On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:01, Ron Stodden wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > Specifically what updates clobbered you? I've not had this problem on > > any of my 9.0 boxes but then I might not have the same software > > installed you do. > > My goodness, how would anyone possibly know? > > There are presently 180 9.0-update RPMs. I would have installed about > one third, so you must see that I would not be prepared to conduct > the enormous amount of research to find out which, and then possibly > to discover it is not one but some combination. >
I'll take a stab in the dark and say it's KDE-related, since I haven't seen the problem and haven't applied the KDE patches. These always fail (two laptops and a desktop): arts-1.0.5a-1.1mdk kdeadmin-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdebase-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdebase-nsplugins-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdegames-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdegraphics-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdegraphics-devel-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdelibs-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdemultimedia-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdemultimedia-devel-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdenetwork-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdenetwork-devel-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdepim-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdesdk-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdetoys-3.0.5a-1.1mdk kdeutils-3.0.5a-1.1mdk libarts-1.0.5a-1.1mdk > That's inescapably Mandrake's job. N'est ce pas? Yes, but... the fact remains that they still do better at it than any other RPM-based distribution I've tried. That said, I feel your pain, because the update process is certainly far from perfect. I'm finding the build-from-source distributions pretty tempting these days, and the only thing that keeps me with Mandrake is the ease of installation and package management. Package management inevitably gets uglier as the distribution release gets older, presumably because limited QA resources are pulled off to work on the latest and greatest. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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