Re: 10.2 rc1

Olivier Thauvin wrote:

>Le Thursday 31 March 2005 20:26, Oden Eriksson a écrit :
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>>Hi.
>>
>>I installed 10.2 rc1 and ran it for a while but soon realised I wanted more
>>so I thought, no sweat I just compile it using the cooker stuff. Man I was
>>wrong, dead wrong... Why is it that 10.2 rc1 x86_64 has binaries built from
>>cooker, and the binary cooker tree for x86_64 has none of those?. Gwenole
>>Beauchesne, where are those packages? In reality this means you have to
>>recompile the stuff you want, and as in this dependecy hell you're in, you
>>soon find out you need to recompile most of the distro. Very annoying. (I
>>gave up...)
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>It's the thing some contributors (me inside) are complaining for a while 
>now... It seems poeple are quite happy with RC, but as you, we want a cooker 
>up to date to build and test our package.
>
>Last time Guillaume started to build amd64, the reply was "no matter, I will 
>overwritting everything", so you can understand we stop to waste our time.
>
Well... there is an alternative...

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/x86_64/

and for those who want to figure out why stuff ain't there yet: the lbd 
outputs:

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/build/x86_64/

So, if you guys keep the src.rpm's in shape, the x86_64.rpm's will keep 
roling out.

There's a bonus too: x86_64 contribs!

regards,

Stefan

PS: the standard disclaimer applies: no support, bla bla bla...