 | | | How to update/override packages? | How to update/override packages? 2005-11-09 - By Paul N
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"to the point of daily virgin sacrifices." That's not a good idea -
soon those distros will run out of geeks to support them ;)
Seriously, I gave you that advice coming from LFS experience, so these
guys have a great point!
On 11/9/05, Jussi Silvennoinen <jussi_taroon@(protected)> wrote:
> > What is the right way to update and/or override packages that are provided
> > by Redhat, but are horribly out of date? For example, the TIFF library in
> > the RHEL3 distro is version 3.5.7, while the current release is version
> > 3.7.3. Also, OpenOffice is at release 2.0, but Redhat is only distributing
> > version 1.2. And PostgreSQL v8.1.0 was just released; who knows how long
> > Redhat will take to get that into the distro, if ever.
> >
> > These are only a couple examples of many that I need to update in order to
> > begin transitioning my MS Windows apps to Linux. I recently tried to update
> > the gtk+ libraries so I could update gimp and it really mucked up my system.
> > It is at all possible to get new versions of these packages?
>
> You're using the wrong distro, this is not what RHEL is for.
> I suggest you look for a Linux distro which is bleeding edge up to the
> point of daily virgin sacrifices.
>
> You can get somewhere close to this by using rawhide. But it ain't fun to
> start your mornings by fixing what the overnight upgrade cronjob broke.
>
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> Jussi
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