On Sunday 12 March 2006 15:44, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:30 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > When I can't find a package with yum, I wonder whether it is safe to > > install a package simply designated 'Other' such as > > > > Other > > ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/i/im/imgseek/imgSeek-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm > > > > I assume these packages are safe enough, but does it mean that they are > > so generic that they will work, but not necessarily be optimised? > > ---- > how can we evaluate whether a package is 'safe' if we don't know the > package? If you believe that all binaries on sourceforge are 'safe' - > then by all means install it. > > If you are looking for a generic rpm, that is a source rpm which you > rebuild on your system - which is always the best thing to do. > > There are things such as 'noarch' rpms which are typically > php/perl/text/shell scripts or other compiled on the fly programs but > binaries by nature are compiled by specific versions of the C compiler > and not generally mobile between OS's unless they use something 'known' > as in compat-libstdc++ (which is how the 'proprietary' software vendors > would likely supply their binaries). Makes sense. I don't know whether this is worth spending time in searching. I read a review a while back, and thought that this package may help me identify multiple copies of .jpgs, but there doesn't seem to be an FC4 rpm of it. I'll poke around a bit more and see if anything similar is available. Anne
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