[2275] in Release_7.7_team
More beta status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon May 22 13:26:54 2000
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:26:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200005221726.NAA29259@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
IRIX: We're in beta.
Solaris: I think everything is set. However, my test update Friday
night, while successful, took over seven hours to complete. This is
not in line with miki's timing results. I believe this has to do with
the 10,000 or so "cannot delete old" error message spewed by pkgadd to
the console, and will submit a patch after checking a few things. We
might be able to go to beta by tonight.
Linux: RPM 3.0.4, included in Red Hat 6.2, appears to break pretty
fundamentally if you do something like
%files
/
as we do in most of our RPMs. In addition to not finding files when
looking for file dependencies within the RPM in this case, 3.0.4
appears not to install most of the files in the RPM. However, it does
list the files if you do rpm -ql PKGNAME, and rpm -Va notices the
missing files.
We need to deal with this situation for the layered release, or our
RPMs won't install properly under Red Hat 6.2. For the beta release,
however, I am strongly considering using rpm 3.0.3 from Red Hat 6.1.
I'm testing this approach now. If people agree that this is adequate
for beta, I can probably go to beta tonight.
