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Comments on the RedHat athena packages....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodre Ts'o)
Sat Oct 26 09:08:01 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:07:03 -0400
From: "Theodre Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Hi there,
I finally upgraded my laptop to RedHat/Athena 4.0.0, and I
noticed the following irregularities....
First of all, as of today, the symlinks for
RedHat/sets/Athena/athena.021 and and athena.014 are broken. They point
to ttylogin-1.0-11.i386.rpm, and misc-1.0-11.i386.rpm, respectively, and
the RPM directory the 1.0-12 version of both of those packages.
Oops....
Secondly, the name "misc" and "lib" are really poor names for
RedHat Packages, something like athena-misc and athena-lib would be much
friendlier.
Finally, the packages seem to be built as user warlord, not as
user root. As a result, when you do the install, RPM warns about "no
user warlord, installing as root". This is not especially a problem,
but it still installs the files as belonging to user warlord in the RPM
database. Hence, when you do an "rpm --verify" on the package, all the
files come up as being broken because the owner is wrong.
One could argue that this is a bug in RPM, but it does mean that
if you happen to have user "warlord" in your /etc/passwd file, all of
the Athena system files end up owned by user warlord, instead of by user
root. This I believe *is* a bug....
- Ted
