[1933] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: root's .cshrc file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Dec 1 09:52:48 1997
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Dec 1997 09:51:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Jacob Morzinski"'s message of Fri, 28 Nov 1997 13:34:03 EST
"Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU> writes:
> The bug may be RedHat's, but the install floppy should not
> place files that are known to be buggy onto users' systems.
Umm.. You're joking, right? The point of RedHat-Athena was to
layer Athena on top of stock RedHat. We've made slight mods to
the install disk, but other than that we don't make any mods to
any RedHat package. If there is a bug in a package, we send mail
to redhat and wait for a new package to arrive.
> Some part of that big menu system should be changed so that the
> "rootfiles" rpm never gets installed on user's systems, if that
> is what the problem is. (Sorry to be so vague, but I really
> have no idea where the installation/configuration menu comes
> from, or how it is configured, or what its consequences are.)
Yea, the problem is that 'rootfiles' is being installed... And that
_IS_ a bug. The fact that rootfiles is buggy isn't something that we
should fix ourselves (even if Sal decided to do it anyways).
-derek
PS: This means both athena-rootfiles and rootfiles got installed.
Oops. Sounds like a conflict line is missing.
>
>
> You requested the output of this command:
>
> athena% rpm -qif /root/.cshrc
> Name : athena-rootfiles Distribution: MIT SIPB Linux-Athena
> Version : 7.7.3 Vendor: The MIT Student Information Processing Board
> Release : 1 Build Date: Sun Nov 09 05:48:39 1997
> Install date: Thu Nov 27 16:11:48 1997 Build Host: cutter-john.mit.edu
> Group : Athena Source RPM: athena-rootfiles-7.7.3-1.src.rpm
> Size : 3278
> Summary : Athena root dotfiles
> Description :
> Athena-like dotfiles to replace root's default ones.
> Name : rootfiles Distribution: Red Hat Linux Vanderbilt
> Version : 1.5 Vendor: Red Hat Software
> Release : 1 Build Date: Thu Mar 20 14:29:29 1997
> Install date: Thu Nov 27 16:18:04 1997 Build Host: porky.redhat.com
> Group : Base Source RPM: rootfiles-1.5-1.src.rpm
> Size : 2934
> Summary : root dot files
> Description :
> This package contains all the startup files for the root user.
> These are basically the same files that are in the etcskel package.
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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