[2899] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Fwd: Problems with updating recently loaded machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Aug 14 00:12:48 2001
Message-Id: <200108140412.AAA07997@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2001 01:39:28 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:12:45 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I notice that amb is not on linux-dev where this note originally went.
You should keep in mind that linux-dev is a *SIPB* list, and predates
by several years I/S Linux-Athena; it doesn't seem like we should force
ourselves (for values of "us" that don't overlap with SIPB) onto the
list; we also shouldn't conflate the list currently used for discussing
the SIPB Linux-Athena installer with anything I/S specific.
>> 3. The SMP problem is being worked on. (Or does 9.0.14 have that fix
>> in it?)
9.0.14 has AFS modules that support SMP kernels on linux (we had this
when we went public); the problem they're having is with the update not
dealing correctly. Greg's patches to rpmupdate to let rpmupdate look at
a list of RPMs that should be upgrade only if they're installed should
address the update problems, but isn't deployed yet.
>> amb or ghudson: Could you sort this guy's problem out?
We should keep in mind that these machines were installed with the
SIPB installer, and while they should update the same as I/S-installer
installed machines, some problem might exist. If we get involved with
this, we may want to work with someone who's done work on the SIPB
installer.
Garry
