new user, and some questions/comments

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:14:24PM +0200, Mariusz Mazur mentioned:
> Rule of thumb is: PLD is used by experienced users (sysadmins) but mostly by 
> the developers themselves. So the big question is: do you want to help? 
 
 Um. I'd certainly like to help. I've a lot of experience with making up
RPMs & making spec files. I can certainly help in that if I get a package
that doesn't work, I'll fix it, and contribute it back. I would also like
to upgrade packages like Mozilla & Galeon which I use daily, when new
versions come out (however, Mozilla-0.9.9 RedHat SRPM won't build for me
on PLD at all).

 Are there small projects - perhaps a "to do" list that I could have a
look at, and get started on ?

 Incidentally I tried to install gcc3 from "nest", and got:

root at bartender /tmp]# poldek --sn nest
Loading
ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/dists/nest/PLD/i686/PLD/RPMS/packages.dir.gz...
131 packages read
Loading cache /root/.poldek-cache/packages.dir.dbcache.var.lib.rpm.gz...
470 packages read

Welcome to the poldek shell mode. Type "help" for help with commands.

poldek> install gcc-3.1-0.20020311.2 rpm-4.0.4-0.50    
Processing dependencies...
gcc-2.95.4-0.20010823.3 obsoleted by gcc-3.1-0.20020311.2
gcc-3.1-0.20020311.2 marks cpp-3.1-0.20020311.2 (cap cpp = 3.1)
  cpp-2.95.4-0.20010823.3 obsoleted by cpp-3.1-0.20020311.2
rpm-4.0.2-61 obsoleted by rpm-4.0.4-0.50
error: rpm-4.0.2-61 (cap librpm.so.0) is required by rpm-build-4.0.2-61
error: rpm-4.0.2-61 (cap librpmbuild.so.0) is required by
rpm-build-4.0.2-61
error: rpm-4.0.2-61 (cap librpmio.so.0) is required by rpm-build-4.0.2-61
error: rpm-4.0.2-61 (cap rpm = 4.0.2) is required by rpm-build-4.0.2-61
error: librpm.so.0 is required by poldek-0.17.2-1
error: librpmio.so.0 is required by poldek-0.17.2-1
error: rpm = 4.0.2 is required by rpm-utils-4.0.2-61
error: librpm.so.0 is required by rpm-utils-4.0.2-61
error: librpmbuild.so.0 is required by rpm-utils-4.0.2-61
error: librpmio.so.0 is required by rpm-utils-4.0.2-61
error: librpm.so.0 is required by wuch-0.21.0-1
error: librpmio.so.0 is required by wuch-0.21.0-1
error: rpm = 4.0.2 is required by rpm-devel-4.0.2-61
error: rpm = 4.0.2 is required by rpm-perlprov-4.0.2-61
There are 3 packages to install (1 marked by dependencies), 3 to
uninstall:
I rpm-4.0.4-0.50
I gcc-3.1-0.20020311.2
D cpp-3.1-0.20020311.2
R cpp-2.95.4-0.20010823.3
R rpm-4.0.2-61
R gcc-2.95.4-0.20010823.3
error: 14 unresolved dependencies
There were errors
poldek> 

 Is this a work in progress, or something I've broken ?

John

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