[2118] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat-Athena 5.1 packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Tue Sep 1 12:38:08 1998
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "01 Sep 1998 10:53:15 EDT."
<sjmzpcjyjdw.fsf@incommunicado.ihtfp.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:32:57 EDT
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> > 2. I temporarily changed /mit/linux/packages/current to point to 5.1
> > instead of 4.2, because "makepackage" still writes packages into
> > "current". Eventually, I'll change it so you can specify a version on
> > the command line.
>
> Sounds good.
This seems poor to me. I know plenty of people who look around the
linux locker directories and will think "current" means "current".
They will try the 5.1 disks and be confused. The tool should be
fixed.
> Once you do have working packages, I'd like to know so I can put them
> on small-gods and setup the athena components files.
You mean sipb-nfs?
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