[2152] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: /afs/sipb/system/i386_linux3/srvd-8.2 read-protected
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Sep 8 19:42:45 1998
To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 08 Sep 1998 19:41:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: Roland McGrath's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1998 19:22:57 -0400
You shouldn't have used the 5.1 packages. Uggh -- Sal left the
'current' link pointing to 4.2. Actually, 'current' should really
point to 4.2, as the 5.1 packages are not "current". They are still
in testing. Due to a bug in the package generation scripts, current
has to be pointing to the new directory, which is why it's pointing to
5.1 before 5.1 is ready.
At least we know some of the packages work. Thank you for helping
test them. Basically, the srvd-* packages get created automatically
along with the athena-*, although the actual SRVD has to be propagated
into AFS by hand. This will certainly get done before RH-A 5.1 is
released, but for now we're still testing the actual code, not the
packaging. For now, if you really want to test the packages, install
the athena-* packages, not the srvd-* packages.
Thanks.
-derek
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
>
> > What are you trying to test? There is no installation ready to test,
> > yet. This is read-protected because it is not ready for public (or even
> > non-public) consumption.
>
> There are srvd-* rpms in /mit/linux/packages/5.1/RPMS/i386, so one off hand
> might guess there is a srvd that goes with them. The non-srvd packages are
> ready enough for me to test; I'm using them and they are mostly working fine.
>
> Some things like xlogin seem to want /srvd/.rvdinfo to exist, so the old
> /afs/sipb.mit.edu/system/i386_linux2/srvd doesn't suffice. I got around
> that easily enough, since I don't need a real /srvd at the moment anyway,
> and xlogin and other things seem to be working fine now.
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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