[2687] in Release_7.7_team
Re: tcpdump and nfs-utils
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 11 19:36:18 2001
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:02:07 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:33:24 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> With regards to NFS, Bob Mahoney visited me recently and asked why,
> when a user puts NFS into their Linux Athena system, NFS packages
> don't get updated. I pointed out that we did that because we were
> concerned users needed bug-compatibility and didn't want us mucking
> with the versions they chose to install.
It's not deliberate; it just falls out of our Linux release
architecture. A release is a list of RPMs; taking a release means
moving from the previous list to the new list. RPMs which aren't in
either list don't get touched.
We could extend the architecture by making a separate list of RPMs
which never get installed but which get updated if they're already
present. Maintaining this list would be extra work, probably to be
done by Andrew. Coding this feature is unlikely to happen before I
put out some large number of fires.
