On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 20:56, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:33, robin fell wrote: > > Tried Planet, but based on RH meant endless RPM database woes for me :( > > Hmmm, not recently, right? > > There were some problems in RH8 (or was it 9?) where sometimes rpm would > hang, but that was a while ago. Early 2003. I was running Gentoo but was trying to reduce my admin workload - hence investigating RH8. > > 1. i've not managed to break portage yet. this is numero-uno for me > > because i killed MDK and RH several times - requiring a reinstall [note: > > yes i do know about rpm dB locks and dB repair tools, but they failed to > > fix my dB] > > Yuck.... I guess I'm lucky. I've never gotten that far in breaking a > system through rpm alone. Just curious, which is the last version of > rh/fc you tried? I finally gave up (in disgust) with RH8.0. Having had previous problems with RPM in RH6.0 I figured I'd already wasted enough of my time reinstalling. On the up-side, I can now drive cfdisk with my eyes shut. > > I'm currently considering a change of distro too - I spend too long on > > admin issues, and not enough time hacking/recording. > > Probably true of any distro if you want to use the latest versions of > audio packages (and who doesn't!). Let us know what you find... that's why i'm thinking seriously as to whether it's worth the effort. a lot of the gentoo misery can be eliminated with stage-3 tarballs (almost complete precompiled binaries), and the KDE-libs, X, etc pain ameliorated by building overnight. sigh - perhaps i'll just stick with what's working.... R
