On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:46:52 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I thought we were talking of RH, not FC. RH in my mind is RHEL. If by > > pinning you mean locking a machine, it certainly is possible. I don't > > understand what "going to unstable" means - if it means you want to > > deliberately make your machine unstable, I'm glad that this feature is > > not present in RH. :) > > Kind of a feature where you can maintain a system that's a mix of debian > stable, testing and unstable - and lock particular packages to the version > from > a particular debian release. If you wanted a system that is basically FC1 but > has a mix of FC2 and FC3 package versions .. > > > > do all this with FC, but, I still believe that somewhere down the > > > line, that ./configure;make;make install is bound to fail for > > > something... > > That's why I get so many debian users coming around various mailing lists > hunting frantically for a debian package of a new version, to replace the old, > obsolete version their debian ships with. When someone suggests that they just > download the source and compile it, it is like we've gone and told them to > commit sacrilege or something. >
You always have apt-src then. As for suggesting source packages, think the same with RHEL .. rrs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
