rpm & glibc catch22

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:50, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:12:27 +0800 "M.W. Chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> 
> > The problem is not about variety, but my lack of brain cells to memorize
> > new commands. :) That's why checkinstall+rpm is my preferred method of
> > building new packages. Of course, if the distirbution can provide
> > download of most versions of any package, that would be fine.
> > 
> > can you specify the exact version of package to download with emerge?
> > how about apt-get? Will they always give you the most recent or stable
> > version only?

You left out my favorite part!

Before emerging (updating) a package, run:

		quickpkg package_name

This makes an installable version of the package as it is currently
installed. Should your experiment fail, just put back that old one with
'emerge -k'. It will know what to do. Very nice when trying a new X
server. It would otherwise take so long to reinstall the old one. And
since you do this before updating and not when you install the old one,
you can be less strict in your planning.


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>