[2185] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: FW: Linux Athena files missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Oct 1 08:47:57 1998
To: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi@MIT.EDU>
Cc: <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Oct 1998 08:47:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Patrick McCormick"'s message of Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:07:41 -0400
Actually, RH 4.2 didn't have a 'sets' directory. That was a
RH 3.0.3 thing, which people wanted for 4.0, which carried into
4.2. There wont be a 5.1 'sets' directory -- the docs will change.
People who want the packages should look in /mit/linux/packages/...
-derek
"Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> hmm... /sipb-nfs/redhat/4.2/i386/Redhat/sets/Athena is definitely empty,
> but I'm not sure what should be in there. Possibly some symlinks to
> ../../RPMS? Or is the doc wrong?
>
> I notice that the 5.1 directory doesn't have a "sets" directory; did Redhat
> change the directory structure?
>
> --pat
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Sebastian Seung [mailto:seung@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 3:28 PM
> To: pmccormi@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Linux Athena files missing
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I tried the following:
>
> > [From the Inessential Linux-Athena]
>
> > If you are using "vanilla" RedHat 4.2, you can upgrade to
> > RedHat-Athena very easily. Just su to or log in as root, and type
> > the following commands:
>
> > mkdir -p /sipb-nfs/redhat
> > mount sipb-nfs:/redhat /sipb-nfs/redhat
> > rpm -ivh /sipb-nfs/redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/sets/Athena/*
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work, as the directory is empty. Do you
> know what happened to the RPM files?
>
> Sebastian Seung
>
>
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