YDL 4 gcc instable?

[Derick Centeno]

Happy New Beer...
...Er..Happy New Year Albrecht and all!

Here is a message just received to the list which at least may point you
to what is claimed to be "newer" rpms, etc.  I cannot verify that this
is so as I have intentionally chosen to stay with YDL 3.0.1 and just
deal with the kernel 2.6.5 to which I've upgraded.

From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com>
To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Yum Update: Great in Theory not in Practice
Date: 31 Dec 2004 08:45:21 -0500

> > Yum update fails each time I try, I get about 20% of the kernel-sources
> > and then it stops.  Just like that, the connection, poof.  I've tried
<snip>
> > So to sum it all up, what's a better yum.conf not just for reliable
> > updates but also for "other" packages?
> 
> Try researching the documentation on the YDL FAQ website.  You may find
> something there helpful, especially if you search around a bit.  Here is
> the link:
> 
> http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start

What is the problem with YDL's yum repository? Is it that the server
on which it sits is overloaded, yum is inefficient or a combination
thereof? The reason I ask is that Ubuntu's update server seems to
serve the installed userbase on both platforms and consistently serves
up d/ls at ~180 K/sec through my connection. I find it odd that there
would be such a large difference (probably a significantly larger
installed user base by now) -- perhaps it's yum's way of downloading a
header for _each and every_ file rather than an index that cripples
yum?

PS On a happier note: I installed a PHP package called gallery onto my
YDL 3.0.1 and really like what you can do with it (share galleries of
pictures, easily) (now to figure out what permissions are preventing
me from uploading larger files... the error message during the install
said Apache wasn't behaving nicely wrt .htaccess IIRC).

Eric.
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Another source you might try, MAYBE closer to the kind of problem you
reported was reported to this list awhile ago,but could be of use to
you.  Here is that link:

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-October/016310.html

Best wishes and wonderful celebrations...
And let's either meditate or pray, and do what may be done for all those
100,000+ lost, and those who have survived, that terrible disaster...

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 06:09, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the gcc 3.3.3 coming with YDL 4 seems to have some optimizer issues.  
> Adding the flag "-mcpu=7450" sometimes makes the optimiser crash.  
> Compiling xine-libs with "-O3" makes the resulting library crash with a  
> segfault. Up to now, all applications (including xine-libs) compiled with  
> a maximum optimisation level "-O2" seem to run fine, though.
> 
> Are there any plans to provide update rpm's to newer and hopefully more  
> stable (3.4) gcc versions?
> 
> Happy New Year,
> cheers,
> 
> Albrecht.