On Monday 22 August 2005 12:53 pm, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Timothy wrote:
> > On Monday 22 August 2005 08:42 am, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > Timothy wrote:
> > > > On Monday 22 August 2005 08:30 am, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > >>Wait a minute. Have you actually ever tried this on a CentOS4 machine
> > > >> ?
> > > >
> > > > I don't use the dag repositories via yum anymore. The 'rf' packages
> > > > have too many issues.
> > >
> > > Issues Like what ?
> >
> > segfaults mostly. I used to use his repository almost exclusively.
> > Maybe most of this is fixed now. I would pull mostly multimedia apps
> > (transcode, avifile, ffmpeg, etc) and mozilla-plugins. Sorry I can't
> > really expand on this because it has been a while. I personally use
> > slackware 10.1 on my i386 desktops now.
>
> You know, it's funny, because FreshRPMS and RPMforge are actually building
> the same packages. So the segfaults most likely happened with FreshRPMS
> too (if you actually tried the same version, which you probably didn't
> because you were using an old FC1 repository that by mere luck worked
> for you).
>
> There have been problems with transcode/dvd:rip that were caused by NPTL
> and needed workarounds (environment variables) to make it work. You could
> have looked at the freshrpms mailinglist or at least reported the problems
> so we could look at it (see if we could reproduce it) or pointed to you at
> a solution.
>
> Instead you opted to be pretty useless to the community, even more
> ill-advising people. Know that for every working piece of Open Source
> software people dedicate time to get things right, that's not only true
> for my packages, but for every piece of OSS software. And if you don't
> even bother to provide valuable feedback, you don't have any reason to
> complain.
I'll shutup now. I'm obviously an idiot. Maybe God will give me brain
someday? Apologies, apologies, apologies.
>
> If slackware works well for you, than that's despite of your input I bet.
>
> So if you wonder if you pissed me off, yes you did :)
>
> Kind regards,
> -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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