Here's my problem: While playing around with some 3d programs, I kept running into the problem of glut.h not being found. Now, I knew from 7.2 days that this file was in the Mesa package, or more precisely the Mesa-devel package. So I do a rpm -qa|grep Mesa. Nothing. Look on the cd, mirrors, srpms dir; nothing. I get some help by using the command rpm -q --whatprovides Mesa-devel, and it tells me that Mesa-devel is now provided in XFree86-devel. But, glut.h still doesn't exist. After some digging, and some help from mharris@redhat, I found that it now exists in it's own packages, glut and glut-devel. Fine and dandy, I can compile the program and play with my 3d app.
But, why wasn't this documented? I'd imagine that a a change like this(integrating most of one package into another, and creating new packages for glut), should be documented in the RELEASE-NOTES, which is the first thing I re-read when I couldn't find glut.h. An example of things in the RELEASE-NOTES is postgresql has been updated, be sure to do pg_dumpall before upgrading. initscripts now disables DMA on ide cd-roms by default we now include blah-blah language Something like the Mesa packages are now integrated into XFree86, and glut, which was in Mesa, is now in it's own binary and devel packages would have saved me a bit of time. I don't understand why I had to look elsewhere to find this information. I feel it should have been documented. I can say, and I'm sure that many agree, that wasting time is the thing I enjoy doing least. By not documenting this, 7.3 effectively wasted my time. Sour experience definitely. I wonder what UnitedLinux is like.... -- Patrick Paul Systems Administrator Biology Dept., MIT 68-371 617-452-2951 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
