Re: [gtkmm] RedHat and Mandrake RPMs

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com writes:

> > > > From: Guillaume Cottenceau [mailto:gc mandrakesoft com] 
> > > > Just wanted to tell you that I just uploaded in "cooker contrib",
> > > > the second part of cooker, Mandrake development distribution,
> > > > libsigc++-1.2.4 and gtkmm-2.2.1.
> > > 
> > > Thanks. That's great news. Is there a URL or instructions 
> > we can add to the
> > > gtkmm download page?
> > 
> > Cooker is our "unstable" distribution, therefore it's not advised
> > to install these packages on a stable version. People should
> > either use cooker (then, they just need to "urpmi.update -a &&
> > urpmi libgtkmm2.0-devel") or rebuild the package on their distro.
> 
> OK. So can we have a a link to the unstable distribution? We would just say
> "gtkmm will be in the next release of Mandrake Linux - here is the "beta"".

You can link to any mirror, but there no "official location" for
it since we use these mirrors.

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
  
> > That said, I'm willing to rebuild a package for our just-released
> > 9.1, if you want to host the package, or only link to it from my
> > personal page, so that people would just need to download it and
> > install it. I've not done so already because I think the use for
> > it is too small to add it to our "updates" or "unsupported"
> > packages for our 9.1.
> 
> Thanks for the offer, but we don't encourage the distribution of 3rd party
> RPMs in general.

Ok.

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/