Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 19:29 schrieb Jos� Fonseca:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Dieter N�tzel wrote:
> >Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 18:35 schrieb Andy Dustman:
>
> [...]
>
> >> Which is it, then: Snapshots or no snapshots? The current snapshots (for
> >> linux-i386) don't work unless you have Red Hat 8.0 and/or glibc-2.3; I'm
> >> not even sure that they work on that platform. Broken snapshots are
> >> worse than no snapshots at all (you can't download something that isn't
> >> going to work if it isn't there).
> >
> >Sorry, but read again.
> >I didn't deny the snapshots per se.
> >Only your call for something like dripkg.sh.
>
> I'm completely lost with the heading of this thread.
>
> If I understood correctly, what's on the table is the generation of some
> snapshots until things go on track again (i.e., I setup a chroot'd
> environment to build the snapshots).
Yes, that's my only point.
> If things don't workout this way then it's best to have no
> snapshots at all for a couple of days, than to have greater fuss than
> the one that already is.
>
> >The RedHat 8.0/glibc-2.3 "problem" is simple. Stay away from it before
> >glibc-2.3 is in wide spread. Installing a "brand" new distro on a
> > "building system" isn't much useful in any way.
>
> Dieter, could you please explain what do you mean with this?
Same as above.
Use a chroot'd environment or wait with RH 8.0 (glibc-2.3) some little longer
on your "building machine".
> If you whish
> to take up the task of building the snapshots please be my guest,
> because I'm pretty tired of having to justify myself to others in
> respect of a service I offer freely using resources which are destinated to
> a specific unrelated end and that don't even belong to me.
No offence were going to you from me. Ok?
Regards,
Dieter
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