[2719] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 8.4.23/24/25 patch release due tomorrow evening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Mon Apr 23 12:53:28 2001
From: Tom Cavin <tec@ai.mit.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <15076.24061.351213.948899@vivaldi.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
To: release-team@mit.edu
Cc: Tom Cavin <tec@ai.mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200104230421.AAA05727@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Hi Greg,
Does the Linux sysinfo change have any effect on the Pentium IV / i?86
update problem? Or the rpm changes?
If so, great. If not, do you have any partial solutions or interrim
fixes for it?
Thanks,
--Tom
Greg Hudson writes:
...
> * On Linux, sysinfo has been rebuilt so that it isn't so picky
> about kernel versions, and should be working again.
>
> * On Linux, the version of rpm was updated to version 4.0.2,
> and the database will be rebuilt in rpm 4.x format at boot
> time, in order to create an upgrade path to Red Hat 7. This
> change involves adding the rpm-build, db3, db3-devel, and
> db3-utils RPMs and upgrading the rpm and rpm-devel RPMs.
--
Tom Cavin Phone: (617) 258 - 7806
WCCF Computer Operations Manager Email: tec@ai.mit.edu
