When a new version of some software is released, it apparently takes RedHat a while before they release it. For example, Mozilla 1.4 was recently released and has not yet shown up via the up2date application.
So, I went exploring around the RedHat ftp site and came across ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS. There was a README file in the rawhide area that had all kinds of warnings and disclaimers about the quality (or lack of quality) of the software found there. Looking specifically at mozilla, on my current RH 9 system are the following: rpm -qa | grep mozilla mozilla-nspr-1.2.1-26 mozilla-mail-1.2.1-26 mozilla-nss-1.2.1-26 mozilla-psm-1.2.1-26 mozilla-1.2.1-26 Looking at the rawhide area I see the mozilla 1.4 RPMs for the ones I already have plus some I don't use. Also, the RPM file names have "i386" as part of the name in the rawhide area. So, my questions are these. Are the RPMs in the rawhide area to be trusted? Do they tend to be buggy (above whatever bugs may exist in the particular software itself)? If I wanted to try the mozilla 1.4 release I find there, do you recommend I remove my existing RPMs for mozilla 1.2 first before installing the 1.4 versions or would it be ok to upgrade them with "rpm -U", or is there some other method that would be better? I'm also interested in doing the same with the SpamAssassin package as the versions from 2.50 and above incorporate some new statistical filtering techniques (Baysian filtering) and the stock RH 9 comes with 2.44. Thanks for any suggestions. Charlie Dennett -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
