Re: Gutsy partner repository

2007-11-29 Thread Jan Claeys
Op donderdag 29-11-2007 om 19:54 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Onno Benschop: > How can I as an IT solutions provider install software that will > continue to be packaged and supported? > > At the moment, the best knowledge seems to be to download an .rpm and > use alien against it, hardly a satis

Re: Gutsy partner repository

2007-11-29 Thread Sam Tygier
Onno Benschop wrote: > At the moment, the best knowledge seems to be to download an .rpm and > use alien against it, hardly a satisfactory solution in my opinion. Next > I'll be recompiling kernel modules, and then I might as well run Gentoo :) For some things using the feisty commercial repo in g

Gutsy partner repository

2007-11-29 Thread Onno Benschop
Today I had an unexpected experience which I thought would be appropriate to share here. On several installations I have previously installed Feisty and after adding the feisty-commercial repository, added vmware-server. Today I tried the same under Gutsy. I expected that it would work the same. I