RE: Red Hat and updated RPMs (was: Wow)

["Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona home com>]

I was able to download rpms for XFree-3.3.6 from the rawhide ftp site.
They also have newer versions of a lot of other packages.

Victor

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Z Leite wrote:

> > 	Not to step on anybody's toes here, but Red Hat has historically
> > been very, very bad about releasing updated packages to make
> > life easier
> > on their customers.
> 
> Not to defend RH, but the important stuff (security patches), were very
> timely in my perception.
> 
> > 	When Red Hat 5.2 came out (with a Perl version that broke
> > Majordomo) it took them several months before they released an updated
> > Perl.  The maintainers of Majordomo had even informed Red Hat of the
> > problem.  (The solution was to _downgrade_ to the Perl that
> > came with 5.1)
> 
> Why didn't the Majordomo people updated the program? Anyway, as you
> said/did, it was a matter of removing one RPM and adding the other.
> 
> > 	The new XFree86 has been out for over a month, and they *still*
> > have not released updated RPMs.  It's annoying because I need
> > that update
> > to play Quake 3 on my Banshee card, but I don't want to contaminate my
> > system with the XFree .tar.gz's.  What good is a package
> > management system
> > if you can't get updated packages?
> 
> Got to rpmfind.net and grab them. AFAIK the official RH XFree 3.3.6 is
> available in the development site (rawhide) for quite a while, but I might
> be wrong. Got mine from rpmfind a long while ago...
> 
> > 	ANY-how, I sincerely hope the Gnome maintainers will take charge
> > of the RPMs.
> 
> RHlabs is part of RH...
> 
> > --Derek
> > P.S.> Sorry about the offtopic.  I had to blow some steam...
> 
> Quite unfairly IMHO.
> 
> Z
> 
> 
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