[lug] RedHat 9?

[Elyse Grasso]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 10:00 am, Michael Deck wrote:
> At 09:56 AM 5/21/2003, efm at tummy.com wrote:
> >* On 2003-05-21 15:50 Elyse Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> wrote:
> >> Just received the May KRUD disks, which are now based off RedHat 9. 
The 
> >> transition 7.x to 8 was messy (there's stuff I still haven't gotten 
> >> working again since the update). And now I'm using my laptop for 
work 
> >> related stuff and don't have a lot of time to spend retweaking it. 
> >> 
> >> Does anyone have any feelings for how ugly this transition is 
likely to 
> >> be? Upgrade at lunch? Upgrade this evening? Wait for the long 
weekend? 
> >> Run away screaming and reconsider switching to mandrake (since I'm 
a 
> >> KDE user...)?
> >> 
> >> I know that RedHat 9 breaks qmail... any other gotchas to watch out 
for?
> 
> Can anyone elaborate on this? It seems like my upgrades always take 
_days_ because first Qmail gets busted and then Mailman. I'm sure I'm 
doing something wrong but if the latest KRUD is going to make that 
worse, I'll wait...
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Deck
> Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.   
> 
> 

There's a system library change in RedHat 9 that breaks qmail. (compiles 
break with complaints about errno) There's a patch on the qmail 
website. I heard about it because I was following the qmail mailing 
list for a while.

But it makes me wonder which other of my apps are going to break because 
of library changes.


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