[1695] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Redhat 4.2/Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Wed Jun 4 14:16:01 1997
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:15:44 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, Chris Murphy <chris@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of 04 Jun 1997 10:27:47 -0400,
<sjm3eqymoik.fsf@charon.MIT.EDU>
It shouldn't be too much work to keep RPM control files around which
made it possible for people to generate RPM files from the SRVD tree of
binaries; after all we already have the control files!
I (like Erik) would also find it very convenient to be able to grab
pieces of Linux-Athena and install them on my laptop. Granted laptop
users may be in the "minority", yet I think it would be useful to have a
solution which would work for them.
If the current RPM control files are going to be abandoned because
people want to have a solution which is more catered towards the
always-connected desktop world, I'd be willing to take over maintaining
RPM's for those people who only want "parts" of the Linux-Athena
sources. (Last time I checked, I had to hack my Linux-Athena setup so
that my machine didn't hang during the boot sequence when it was off the
net, so there are a bunch of fixes which I want to make to some of the
configuration files anyway....)
As far as problems in terms of keeping the RPM files up to date, the
generation of RPM files should be automated, to the point where we can
run a script a generate fresh RPM files given a particular SRVD release.
This shouldn't be Rocket Science, people.....
- Ted
