Re: New Swarm 2.0.1 RPMs for LinuxPPC R5/ppc and Red Hat 6.0/i386available

[Pietro Terna]

        ok, Pietro

At 14.56 15/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>>> "PT" == Pietro Terna <address@hidden> writes:
>
>PT>    Hi Paul, many thanks, this is _the solution_.
>
>PT>    (May be it would be useful if our friends of swarm.org would
>PT> place in the ftp site the RedHat (6.1) rpm file of kaffe-1.0.b4-2,
>PT> instead of suggesting the installation of kaffe-1.0.b4.tar.gz).
>
>[...]
>
>Well, we already do, here's the relevant extract from,
>ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/redhat/RPMS/i386/README.i386:
>
>Java support enabling `add-on' package:
>=======================================
>
>You can add Java support to *either* of the above `swarm-base'
>packages
>
>[Note: this is *not* required if you wish to purely program in
>Objective C and not in Java]:
>
>* swarm-kaffe-2.0.1-2.rh6.i386.rpm
>
>  which requires kaffe-1.0.4b4 (also available in the Red Hat 6.0
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
>  distribution or at one of the many Red Hat ftp mirrors).
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Nowhere do we recommend installing kaffe from source (using binary
>packages with dependencies is the whole point of using rpm, after
>all).
>
>Alex
>
>
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