--On Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:42 AM +0200 Michael Schwendt
<fedora(a)wir-sind-cool.org> wrote:
I repackaged openal from FC3 on my FC2 system. I can't imagine anything in
the SRPM that would be incompatible. I wouldn't upgrade a core component
like a kernel or glibc that way, but an add-on like openal should be ok. (I
looked at the resulting file list and install scripts to make sure it
wouldn't do something evil.) The more critical the component is, the more
closely I inspect the spec file and patches before proceeding.
(I figure I'll upgrade the box to FC4 a month after it's stable, allowing
time for the "surprises" to die down a bit.)