Subject: Re: Ruff Pack 0.80
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 23:37:24 MST
Just as a note.. a few things are missing from what is online:
emacs, kdebase, kde2libc, kcontrol, a few others.. and a ramdisk and
installer related files (will have those ready tomorrow).
Other then that, everything ya need should be there. There is even a
kernel rpm now :)
> Well, I am not positive about "easiest", but I can tell you what I did when
> I started using Ruff Pack 0.75. I started by wiping my current system and
> performing the most basic install I could manage from the CS 1.1 CD. I then
> did an rpm -qa to get a listing of everything that was installed, and updated
> each of those packages using rpm's from the 0.75 tree. I then went through
> the 0.75 tree and installed everything else that I needed or that looked
> interesting.
>
> I am not sure that it is necessary that everything be from the Ruff Pack
> tree, but I decided to play it safe. I suspect that upgrading some packages
> (especially things like glibc) may break some of the older packages. I was
> also trying to get my system to a state where I could do some valid debugging
> of the new stuff if necessary. But I wouldn't suggest this approach unless
> you just want to play and have time to burn. When all was said and done,
> I spent most of a day and half getting a functional system back online.
> But things have been working great since then ;) For 0.80, I will probably
> be lazy and just rpm -Uvh anything with a new version number.
>
> Jim
>
>
Regards,
Dan
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