[1675] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Making system packs an option in the RedHat 4.2 install procedure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sun May 25 14:17:16 1997
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:16:41 -0400
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
I propose the following scheme:
1. Make the athena-rc package create the /srvd symlink. Specifically:
1a. The pathname of the system packs should not be hardcoded into the
athena-rc package.
1b. Get a filsys entry for the system packs.
1c. Either make athena-rc depend on the attach rpm so it can attach the
system packs, or move hesinfo to athena-rc and make it look up the
system pack entry and create the symlink.
2. For every package with files in /usr/athena, create a corresponding
package, "srvd-foo", which contains basically the same set of files
but was built on a machine where all of the files (or directories
in the case of /usr/athena/lib/tex, etc.) are symlinks to
/srvd/usr/athena/*. Make those two RPMs conflicts. (You can
install one or the other but not both.)
This is a nice little system that's easy to create, not too difficult
to maintain, and allows people a lot of flexibility about what they
install locally and they run off the system packs. As they say in
action movies, "let's do it."
-Sal.
