From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,97b449d7d938b171 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!c21g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Fedora, Debian and other GNU/Linux distributions (was: gnatmake problem) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8dff8d5a-8fe7-4898-ba13-3e036fc5da65@c21g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> References: <1cf6yvjk2ybud.adabrv67kkd5.dlg@40tude.net> <79g1izv236j0$.kko3gog953cg.dlg@40tude.net> <20e80705-5368-4191-9839-c53346c2b2c7@29g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1272032362 5779 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2010 14:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c21g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11130 Date: 2010-04-23T07:19:22-07:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:30:31 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada: > >> Fedora team does this [building gnat on Fedora]. > >> Alas each time the gcc goes up to the next version, > >> something breaks in gnat. I doubt it were simple to fix by mere > >> recompilation. (I even tempted to install Debian on a VirtualBox and try > >> out gnat maintained by Ludovic...) > >> You remind me that I moved from Red Hat 8 to Debian 3.0 "Woody" back >> in 2001 precisely because I got frustrated at bugs and their dropping >> support for Ada between 7.3 and 8. At the time, Samuel Tardieu was the >> maintainer and I still thank him for his excellent work. > > The worst thing of Fedora is these idiotic major core versions, which > cannot be upgraded to. You can upgrade the kernel, but cannot the > distribution. It is pathetic. I tried it each time and each time was forced > to reinstall it completely. Are all Linux distributions like that? Luckily, no! Debian's philosophy is "install once, upgrade many" and indeed, I only install once per machine. I've had my current laptop since November 2006, when I installed Debian on it, and it have upgraded it constantly ever since. I normally upgrade every week or so, tracking the "testing" distribution. I have also successfully upgraded servers from one stable release to the next several times. -- Ludovic Brenta.