Here's a forward of an email I've sent earlier, which should please some Red Hat Linux desktop users. The sylpheed packages have been updated (the problem worked around), and the ALSA kernel modules are on their way!
Matthias
From: Matthias Saou
To: RPM-List
Subject: Red Hat Linux 9 freshrpms packages
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:11:33 +0200
Hi all,
Red Hat Linux 9 is here, and so are the new freshrpms.net packages!
Of course, as the main distribution is only currenty available to RHN
subscribers, the "os" and "updates" apt/yum modules aren't avaible yet, and
won't be until the release actually hits the stores and public ftp servers,
which should happen one week from now.
The new website is: http://shrike.freshrpms.net/
All relevant parts of freshrpms.net and apt.freshrpms.net have been (or are
soon going to be) updated to reflect the change.
New stuff: (*IMPORTANT*)
- The apt server is now http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ and the paths no longer
include "en". For the info, "ayo" stands for "apt, yum and others";-)
- All files are also available through yum, although no yum package for
Red Hat Linux 9 is currently available from freshrpms.net (soon!). See
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ for more.
- Some packages have had their non-relevant epoch value removed. These
may be problematic if you decide to upgrade your system instead of
performing a complete reinstall. The affected packages are:
- apg
- anjuta
- blackbox (but was 0 anyway)
- gentoo
- gkrellm
- gkrellm-plugins
- gkrellm-themes
- gtktalog
- i8kutils
- libdvdcss
- ltris
- proftpd
- subtitleripper
- xine
The only packages with epoch set are the ones that need it in order to
keep upgradability with older Red Hat packages.
- The ALSA kernel modules don't work with the default Red Hat 9 kernel, so
until a solution is available, no ALSA:-(
- The mjpegtools won't recompile, so transcode is currently built without
mjpeg support (required for (S)VCD IIRC).
- The sylpheed and sylpheed-claws packages don't seem to recompile with SSL
and produce include errors (krb5 from openssl) that I also have on
YellowDog Linux 3.0, I'll dig into that. For now, the 8.0 binary
packages should work fine.
- A few packages now compile again in their latest version, most notably
the screem web editor and the totem xine/gtk2 player.
For the impatient ones, remember that signing up with RHN will allow you to
support Red Hat, which is still providing us with a great (my favorite;-))
GNU/Linux distribution! For the others, only one week left to go... and...
have you considered subscribing to RHN?:-)
That's all for now, please report back to me any eventual problems, but
most of all... have fun!
Matthias
I've also already rebuilt a pre-configured apt and its reposiroty for use with Valhalla, as well as many custom packages (lame, gkrellm, glimmer, nessus, xmame...)
Having already tested it a bit, I must say this release looks darn good and stable so far! Maybe it's because there are fewer changes than usual (which explains this being 7.3 and not 8.0).
For those of you running Red Hat Linux 7.2, you can now install and upgrade all the packages found on my enigma.freshrpms.net website by adding this line to your/etc/apt/sources.list :
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a forward of an email I've sent earlier, which should please some Red Hat Linux desktop users. The sylpheed packages have been updated (the problem worked around), and the ALSA kernel modules are on their way!
Matthias
From: Matthias Saou
To: RPM-List
Subject: Red Hat Linux 9 freshrpms packages
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:11:33 +0200
Hi all,
;-) :-( ;-)) :-)
Red Hat Linux 9 is here, and so are the new freshrpms.net packages!
Of course, as the main distribution is only currenty available to RHN
subscribers, the "os" and "updates" apt/yum modules aren't avaible yet, and
won't be until the release actually hits the stores and public ftp servers,
which should happen one week from now.
The new website is:
http://shrike.freshrpms.net/
All relevant parts of freshrpms.net and apt.freshrpms.net have been (or are soon going to be) updated to reflect the change.
New stuff: (*IMPORTANT*)
- The apt server is now http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ and the paths no longer
include "en". For the info, "ayo" stands for "apt, yum and others"
- All files are also available through yum, although no yum package for
Red Hat Linux 9 is currently available from freshrpms.net (soon!). See
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ for more.
- Some packages have had their non-relevant epoch value removed. These
may be problematic if you decide to upgrade your system instead of
performing a complete reinstall. The affected packages are:
- apg
- anjuta
- blackbox (but was 0 anyway)
- gentoo
- gkrellm
- gkrellm-plugins
- gkrellm-themes
- gtktalog
- i8kutils
- libdvdcss
- ltris
- proftpd
- subtitleripper
- xine
The only packages with epoch set are the ones that need it in order to
keep upgradability with older Red Hat packages.
- The ALSA kernel modules don't work with the default Red Hat 9 kernel, so
until a solution is available, no ALSA
- The mjpegtools won't recompile, so transcode is currently built without
mjpeg support (required for (S)VCD IIRC).
- The sylpheed and sylpheed-claws packages don't seem to recompile with SSL
and produce include errors (krb5 from openssl) that I also have on
YellowDog Linux 3.0, I'll dig into that. For now, the 8.0 binary
packages should work fine.
- A few packages now compile again in their latest version, most notably
the screem web editor and the totem xine/gtk2 player.
For the impatient ones, remember that signing up with RHN will allow you to
support Red Hat, which is still providing us with a great (my favorite
GNU/Linux distribution! For the others, only one week left to go... and...
have you considered subscribing to RHN?
That's all for now, please report back to me any eventual problems, but
most of all... have fun!
Matthias
I've put up a list of mirror servers that are known to be fully synced with the release here :
http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/valhalla.html
I've also already rebuilt a pre-configured apt and its reposiroty for use with Valhalla, as well as many custom packages (lame, gkrellm, glimmer, nessus, xmame...)
Having already tested it a bit, I must say this release looks darn good and stable so far! Maybe it's because there are fewer changes than usual (which explains this being 7.3 and not 8.0).
Matthias
For those of you running Red Hat Linux 7.2, you can now install and upgrade all the packages found on my enigma.freshrpms.net website by adding this line to your
rpm ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/apt redhat-freshrpms-7.2/redhat freshrpms
And now you can "apt-get install xine" or "apt-get install ogle_gui" or even "apt-get install gkrellm-plugins" with less hassles than before! ;-)
Of course, you first need to get the apt package from here.
Hoping some people will find this as useful as I do,
Matthias
http://freshrpms.net/misc/enigma.html
Also, don't forget to go get all the "missing" goodies (xine, lame, nessus...) from http://enigma.freshrpms.net/
Happy download! :-)
Matthias