Is Mandrake known to have any problems on AMD systems?

[Mark Street, D.C.]

Yeah, there is something else at work here......  In some instances a
Mandrake RPM is NOT compatible with RedHat.  As a general rule only
install RPMS that are created for your particular
distribution...especially if you get dependency issues.

Personally, if there are no RPM's for XFree 4.1.0 for RH 7.1 I would roll
my own and install the tarball.  Stay away from Mandrake RPMs for your RH
7.* system.

There are instances when you may want to install a Mandrake RPM anyway.  I
did this when I recently installed Bastille Linux on one of my
boxes.  There were only Mandrake RPM's available.....  I used the --nodeps
option with rpm and the install worked just fine.  For a major service
like X you are asking for trouble by using the nodeps option with Mandrake
RPMs.

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Lincoln Peters wrote:

> Here's what happened:
> I looked at RPMFind for XFree86 version 4.1.0, and discovered that most of 
> the time, the Mandrake RPM's were the most recent releases of the programs 
> that I was looking for.  In this case, they were the _only_ XFree86 4.1.0 
> RPM's, so I tried to install them on my Red Hat 7.1 system (with an AMD 
> Athlon processor).  Well, a whole bunch of dependency issues came up, and I 
> even ended up upgrading RPM itself, replacing it with a version from 
> Mandrake.
> 
> Then, when I tried to use RPM again, I got a segmentation fault.  In order 
> to make RPM usable, I had to download it as a source tarball from rpm.org 
> and compile it myself (at which point it worked fine).  The only explanation 
> I can think of is that a Pentium-optimized compiler like is used by Mandrake 
> might not work correctly with an AMD system, but I really don't know.  I'm 
> especially confused because the Mandrake RPM's with XFree86 seem to be 
> working perfectly.  Can anyone tell me: is my guess correct, or is there 
> something else at work here?