On 12 Nov 2002, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:21, John wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2002, Brian K. Jones wrote: > > > > > I don't get it. What's so hard about installing red-carpet and getting > > > it from there, like the ximian site says to do if you're running RH8? > > > It's really not that hard, and it works well. I'm writing this in 1.2 > > > now, which I've had since almost immediately after the release (oh yeah, > > > I'm running RH8) > > > > > > Did I miss something? Is there something wrong with the ximian rpmz? > > > /brian > > > > Upgrading to RHL 8.1 will be tricky. > > >From what I read, Brian has simply installed a utility from the Ximian > offerings, called Red Carpet. He has not installed their entire > desktop, which is what causes upgrade problems because it installs at > least 20 packages (rpm --force). The immediate past questions wabs about Ximian packages, plural. > ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet/redhat-80-i386/red-carpet-1.4.0-2.ximian.2.i386.rpm > > That file, that is Red Carpet. It has ZERO dependencies. It does not > conflict with any existing RH8.0 packages. It will not interfere with > upgrades to the future version of RH, (if any exists, with no > speculation as to the version number, if it even has one). Ximian packages in general do. BTDT. > > That is what Brian has recommended. Install Red Carpet, and use it to > do whatever it was this thread started about. Oh ya, Evolution 1.2. Has Red Carpet any use other than installing Ximian packages? If so, it _may_ be a good idea. > > I'm using the beta, and it works great. I think maybe I'll install 1.2 > > -Ryan > > PS - Stereotypical mumbojumbo about upgrading to a version of RH that > may never exist wasn't called for. Do your research first. Not since 3.0.3 has RH not had a x.1 release. Try some research of your own. Read the release notes for several past releases of RHL. All talk of problems upgrading systems with Ximian packages installed. Since a) RH has x.1 releases b) The upgrade problem has existed for several past releases over, maybe, a couple of years, it seems probable to me that the problem will still exist with future releases, including RHL 8.1 which I expect about April. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
