[23687] in Athena Bugs
Re: Delaying an update and keeping rpms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 20 14:07:28 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
Cc: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>, SIPB Linux Help <linux-help@mit.edu>
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Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:07:24 -0400
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:22, Tom Cavin wrote:
> That sounds workable if all the changes made by an update are in the form
> of RPMs. Is that currently the case?
Yes. Though, to work around a loopback device bug, some updates are
careful to install the new mkinitrd first. (Shouldn't be an issue for a
machine already running 9.2.)
> And are all the RPMs in one central location? Or are they scattered around
> in a few places?
They are all in subdirectories of /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/rhlinux,
but they're not all in the same directory.
