Everyone is about the packaged Firefox 3 Beta in Rawhide, but bails on me with:
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b3pre and 1.9b3pre
What the heck is GRE? And if you reqire it, please add it into Requires:, kthx.
Nice job.
The most worrying aspect of it is that “it” posted a few scraps using my identity. How was it possible? I suspect that someone was stealing Gtalk passwords, which are the same for Adsense and Gmail too.
is probably just the boot code.
From: xorg-owner@lists.freedesktop.org To: zaitcev@redhat.com Subject: Patch for sis and libpciaccess Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:18:59 -0800 Sender: xorg-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at xorg-owner@lists.freedesktop.org.
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I cannot fathom why anyone would ever want to work directly with SRPMS like that, for any package.
Two reasons: 1) CVS tip is not reproducible (easily), and 2) it may be in undesirable flux.
In kernel terms, if I download 2.6.23 tarball and you download 2.6.23 tarball, we get the same thing. If config and gcc are factored out, we get the same result. But if I do git pull, you do git pull, we get different things. Heck one of them may even reject a patch that applies to the other one fine.
In case of Fedora, it’s even worse because CVS is no git. To try and convince CVS to produce you a useable tree for X11 before libpciaccess, for example, is an arduous task. I, for one, have no clue how to accomplish it. Moreover, I have no desire to bother when it’s so easy to download a suitable SRPM which is known to work.
And presumably if you ever want to update it you need to download a whole new SRPM and do it all over again, instead of just ‘cvs update; make $ARCH’.
You should do a cvs update -d, and even then I’ve been bitten by leftover configs before. In SRPM case, if you do “rm ~/rpms/SOURCES/*”, you may be sure that the result of rpm -i is going to build.
It’s true that in the long run SRPMs are unworkable for day-to-day hacking due to their sheer bulk. The multi-petabyte /mnt/redhat/dist is something remember vividly, if not fondly. However, I feel a certain trepidation and uncertainty every time I check out anything with a tag. And of course the first thing I do after the checkout is “make srpm”, then I run away from CVS as fast as I can.
Snapped a minute ago on Rawhide (look at the corrupt icons):
I reported this bug a year ago, IIRC. But it’s still with us. I really should get off my ass and fix it, but since it involves GNOME, that would require some major learning. Which would probaly be probably a good thing, actually… But I’m always busy with some stuff. And who isn’t?
UPDATE: Actually, it was .