[2119] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat-Athena 5.1 packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Sep 1 12:49:04 1998
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Sep 1998 12:48:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: Emil Sit's message of Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:32:57 EDT
Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > > 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.
Well, /mit/linux/redhat/current still points to 4.2 -- it's only
/mit/linux/packages that does not. You're right, the tool should be
fixed. Sal acknowledged that. But right now time-to-release is more
important than properly-working tools.
> > 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?
Yea, I meant sipb-nfs. Braino. I've already changed the
server-builder scripts to copy to sipb-nfs.
-derek
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