[3986] in Release_7.7_team
state of the rhlinux 9.1 release and new installs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Aug 14 16:51:29 2003
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:51:06 -0400
Message-Id: <200308142051.h7EKp6XV015141@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
For whatever reason, people continue to want to install 9.1 rhlinux
machines. Since the hacked control-current is now gone, people are using
control/control-9.1 to install, which does not, of course, work.
There are a couple of ways to fix this. The better solution, assuming
release engineer bandwidth is available, is to release a 9.1.28 patch
release with a fixed version of the mkinitrd package. (The 9.2 version,
rebuilt for 9.1, is in /afs/dev/user/amb/rhlinux/athena-9.1.special.)
The addition of the lvm package is also required.
The worse solution is to hack phase2.backend to install 9.1.18 if 9.1.19+
is specified. The version that's in the dev cell now does this, but it's
really horrible and I'd rather not deploy it if we can do the former.
I suppose creating a special control file for 9.1 installs is also an
option, but that puts a load on the users that would be annoying to
support and debug.
