Caldera 3.1.1

[Tony Alfrey]

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 05:31 pm,Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:50:14 -0700 Tony Alfrey
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> > Geeze Looeeze Skipmeister, whadda ya tryin' t do t me?? 
> > Everybody's
> >
> > got me enthused about 3.1.1 and now you tell me it is bad news???
> > What do you mean that it won't update??  Inquiring minds want to
> > know.
>
> I think Skippy is just trying to tell me what we all learned along
> the way.  Caldera was never especially good at providing updates
> (except for security), and the Caldera file setup was sufficiently
> different, that most RPMS would not work without major surgery.
>
> If you want an upgradable system, try RedHat/Mandrake or Debian
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This update thing has 'always' been a hassle (vis-a-vis distro-specific 
rpms).  I do not mind compiling anything as long as I know where I'm 
supposed to put the end result.  Is there not some way that we can 
begin to get some 'parts list', if you will, for updates, source, etc.  
In other words, we need to know the equivalent of making an rpm?


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