[1220] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: package reorganization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Sun Jan 28 21:17:45 1996
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:08:59 EST."
<199601282109.QAA14370@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:17:25 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> I think we should go through the packages and try to figure out a
> better, logical separation between the contents. We should decide who
> our customers are and how we want to serve them. Then we should make
> our decisions about what should be "required", what should be
> "optional", and how it should be split up.
As a first step, I've compared the contents of the a.out and elf
packages with each other. There are a number of differences. I've
stored the diffs and the script used to generate the unified diff in
/mit/linux/people/sit. Someone who knows more about the contents of
these packages (e.g. Sal) should take a look at my package.diffs file.
I think that at the very least, the two package trees should be
sync'ed.
Jered has been saying something about wanting to recompile all the
packages since none of us really know what Sal did. It might be a good
idea anyway, to compile the latest libs and do a complete
build. (Whatever came of the new build engine?)
> > hesinfo $username passwd >> /etc/passwd
>
> Perhaps we should use a passwd.local file?
Probably a good idea. My roommate's computer often argues with his
video card and dies when people are logged in at console. This leaves
these hesiod created users in /etc/passwd, which gets them by
noremote.
Emil
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