On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:29:59PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:29:59 -0500 (CDT) > From: Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: PINE not included in FC2? > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:53:25PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > Am Fr, den 24.09.2004 schrieb Filippos Klironomos um 20:43: > > > > > > > something that I am curious about. I had installed PINE on my RH9 > > > > system and noticed that it didn't survive the FC2 upgrade. Is there a > > > > specific reason for that? > > > > > > Yes, license issues. > > ... > > > Dag Wieers' repository has a pine package for Fedora. > > > > Save one level of indirection and use the RPMs from > > the university of Washington, the home of pine. > > > > They have FC2 rpms. > > No they don't. From http://www.washington.edu/pine/getpine/linux.html > RedHat/Fedora RPM package built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 ????? But they do and it works fine here. From your URL. # rpm -Uvh pine-4.61-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:pine ########################################### [100%] # uname -r 2.6.8-1.521 <--- FC2 current... > The Dag-pine rpms are good for Fedora. And the default configs for > pine are pretty good here. Yes Dag's set of RPMs are excellent. My point is staying close to the source/home for packages that are not under the watchful eye of the Fedora community can have value. There are MANY packages where Dag and company adds massive value with his service. This one is a wash.... unless you want different default values... and you cannot see the difference unless you download and inspect both. If you are thinking of installing from a tar ball check his resource first. An important point is that the more locations you gather packages from the more places you have to watch for updates as the result of my "rpm -U" shows. Make sure you are on announcement lists for foreign packages. When pine was pulled from the Fedora package list washington.edu did not have rpm packages. They do now. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Me, I would "Rather" Not.
