The poll feature does not allow and and. You can vote more than one time to
make an and.
Gerhard Brandt wrote:
> Fons Rademakers wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I don't mind if people mail you with their choice of package types,
>> either rpm or deb. You can then report to us the results of this poll.
>> Thinking about it I just started a poll, see:
>> http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7650#7650
>> and make your choice.
>>
>> -- Fons
>
>
> hm, maybe i don't get it, but why is there an exclusive or between the
> formats?
> personally, i need all three, just right now i would prefer to have
> deb's for a clean system.
> most HEP linuxes are rpm based, so not providing those is clearly
> no choice either.
>
>
>> PS: note this is not a "referendum" :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gerhard,
>>> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 09:51 +0200, Gerhard Brandt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Now that the bug with with libAfterImage seems fixed,
>>>> are there fixed debian packages for 4.04/02 available somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not to my knowledge.
>>>
>>>> (I checked Christians homepage and the PAIPIX site but couldn't
>>>> find any)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The packages on my web-site are terribly out of date (in fact, I should
>>> remove them to not cause confusion). I don't know about the PAIPAX
>>> site, and how often they update.
>>>
>>>
>>>> If not, is there a cvs tag that includes the fix?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> HEAD :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Generally, what is the stance on including debian packages
>>>> in the ROOT release procedure? I would be very much in favour
>>>> of that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I second that. In general, I think it would be a good idea for ROOT to
>>> make RPM and Debian packages as part of the release procedure. It
>>> shouldn't be that hard. I've made a prototype page for apt-get (both
>>> Debian and Scientific Linux) which Fons has access to, and can look at
>>> to see how it's done. To make Debian packages, the ROOT team obviously
>>> need a Debian machine :-) I would suggest making packages for `stable'.
>>> BTW, Sarge is due to be released at any moment now!
>>>
>>> Perhaps it we (at roottalk) could take a vote on whether or not we'd use
>>> RPMs or Debian packages released by the ROOT team - all those in favour
>>> say `Aye' - no, please don't - we don't need 1000+ mail to roottalk
>>> saying `I want RPMs/Debs' :-) But it would good to know what the demand
>>> is.
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>
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