PINE not included in FC2?

Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 25 01:09:08 UTC 2004


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 at fastmail.fm>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: PINE not included in FC2?
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 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.



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