[2688] in Release_7.7_team
Re: tcpdump and nfs-utils
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed Apr 11 21:47:09 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:47:05 -0400
Message-Id: <200104120147.VAA14235@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200104112333.TAA04315@equal-rites.mit.edu> (message from Greg
Hudson on Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:33:24 -0400)
The easy one is tcpdump. It's now in the 9.0.0 package list, as it
should have been. I have no idea how anyone gets through life without
being able to watch the bits go by. *shudder*.
As far as the other:
>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.
It's pretty much just "rpm -F" on the update RPM list or some big subset
thereof, and rpm should fail reasonably gracefully if dependencies fail.
I doubt we would want to do more. This does get us (further) out of the
business of maintaining cookie-cutter machines, and is also not something
I think we'd want to think about on other platforms. (Not that these are
necessarily bad ideas, especially as we drift ever closer to the rocks of
"one-on-one computing", but it's worth noting.)
