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Re: Latest on Ji-yong's system, nde@mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Dec 18 20:02:21 2002
Message-Id: <200212190101.UAA13788@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "18 Dec 2002 14:20:02 EST."
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:01:34 -0500
> Ji-yong replied directly to me saying:
>
>
> Hi, Bill:
>
> Thank you for your reply. I didn't run any hand-installing script to
> install the linux, instead I ran the officially released install
> script by going to Athena and copying the script into my floppy.
>
> Ji-yong
>
> The ONLY difference from a package standpoint is that the person's
> machine has filesystem-2.0.7-1 instead of filesystem-2.1.0-2.1 for an
> Athena 9.0.24 system.
>
> Otherwise, athinfo nde packages contains the same packages as the
> list-9.0.24 control file does.
>
> Should we believe this user's statement that the vanilla Athena install
> was run? Might the install have blown out after bringing all the
> packages in?
Does the linux install leave a /var/athena/install.log around? If so,
that would be interesting to get from the user.
> How terrible could it be if I recommended creating an
> /etc/athena/version file naming 9.0.24 and having her do the update from
> there?
I'd recommend appending the following line to /etc/athena/version,
rather than replacing the existing file:
Hand Inserted (linux) Version 9.0.24 Wed Dec 18 19:58:17 EST 2002
However, before running the update the user should check to see if
/var/athena/release-rpms exists. If it does not, she should copy the
9.0.24 control file into place there *before* starting the update.
Jonathon
