Re: gpilotd problem

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 07:31, Frédéric Crozat wrote:
> Le ven 16/08/2002 à 06:56, Jack Coates a écrit :
> > Not sure if things are any better yet, but it seems to be looking up. I
> > thought I'd write down the PITA experience involved in upgrading a
> > Mandrake 8.2 / Ximian system to newer versions using RPMs, though:
> > 
> > 1) remove pilot-link 0.9.5 and gnome-pilot-0.64. There are a number of
> > dependent RPMs which you should make decisions on one-by-one.
> > 
> > 2) get the Mandrake Cooker pilot-link-0.11.3 src.rpm from
> > speakeasy.rpmfind.net. There is no binary RPM at this time, probably
> > because the source RPM won't compile.
> 
> Your problem is here.. Mandrake cooker packages are not supposed to be
> installed on a non-cooker (ie Mdk 8.2) system.. This is totally
> UNSUPPORTED.. And compiling cooker srpms on Mdk 8.2 system is
> unsupported as well..
> 
> But if you upgrade to Mandrake 9.0 beta 3, everything will work fine,
> since I have integrated pilot-link 0.11.3 with gnome-pilot/evolution ...
> 

That's good.

But let me get this straight -- the recommendation is to upgrade my
*entire* operating system to unstable code in order to get a single
feature?? I think I'll keep using the cooker RPMs, supported or
otherwise.

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> Frédéric Crozat
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