[2100] in SIPB_Linux_Development
add new 4.2 rpm updates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 27 06:47:29 1998
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 06:47:11 -0400
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
I thought it might be a good idea to have all of the latest 4.2 rpm
updates on sipb-nfs before making a very widespread announcement of
the new install server. For example, users might be interested in the
fixes for security problems in libtermcap and svgalib.
I ftp'd all of the new 4.2 rpm updates and put them in
/redhat/new-updates on sipb-nfs. There are 32 of them. (I didn't
bother getting the INN news server rpm's since I know they've been
intentionally excluded because of problems caused by inadvertently run
news servers on Linux machines.)
Is the procedure for making these available for RedHat-Athena to
copy them to /mit/linux/redhat/redhat-4.2/i386/updates, and copy them
to /redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS and run "genhdlist /redhat/4.2/i386"?
Would it maybe be preferable at this point to exclude all of the
kernel*-2.0.35-0.i386.rpm files? I suspect there's the issue of users
needing afs-3.3a-2.0.35.i386.rpm to use with kernel-2.0.35-0.i386.rpm.
There were two rpm's for which an update apparently was issued with
the same filename as the old version:
% sum {/redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/,}kernelcfg-0.4-1.i386.rpm
08455 15 /redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernelcfg-0.4-1.i386.rpm
05986 15 kernelcfg-0.4-1.i386.rpm
% sum {/redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/,}elm-2.4.25-8.1.i386.rpm
22610 170 /redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/elm-2.4.25-8.1.i386.rpm
37427 170 elm-2.4.25-8.1.i386.rpm
I'm actually not sure whether RedHat means something different when
they do this rather than changing the filename, or whether
/mit/linux/redhat/redhat-4.2/i386/updates/update.pl can be used to
install the new one on a machine that has the old one installed.
Also, there's an updated rpm inews-1.5.1sec2-2.i386.rpm but there are
currently no inews rpm's in /redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS. Should there
be a change to update.pl so that machines get this when updating?
Matt
