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 at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos