On Friday 04 July 2003 08:37 pm, Charles R. Dennett wrote: > 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. > <snip> > 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?
All that needs to be said is already in the README you're talking about. It may or may not be buggy. It may or may not be trusted. Sometime upgrades with rpm -Uvh works, sometimes not, sometime you run into dependencies problem that the only way to solve is to breaks all the thing that was working in your machine, sometime you need to un-install your current working package first, sometime it just works. It's development packages. Sometime it may also not be binary compatible with your current distro (what RH version do you use? ) SO that's it. Use it with your own risk. Another way is to install newer version Mozilla (or other things) direcly from source. That way you can still have your RPM version on your machine, and the newer version. If you like the newer version, great, rpm -e your current version. Otherwise, just stick with your current package. You can choose to have bleeding edge with the risk of breaking things, or stable but not the latest and greatest. In rare occassions, if you're lucky, you have both :) RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
