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RE: FW: Linux Athena files missing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick McCormick)
Thu Oct 1 16:25:44 1998

From: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi@MIT.EDU>
To: "Derek Atkins" <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:23:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <001c01bded77$5c86c830$1f004212@modigliani.MIT.EDU>

Also, I just realized; current points to 5.1, so won't

rpm -ivh /mit/linux/packages/*

install the 5.1 packages and fubar a 4.2 machine?  (I might misunderstand
how -ivh works here.)

--pat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McCormick [mailto:pmccormi@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 4:09 PM
> To: Derek Atkins
> Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
> Subject: RE: FW: Linux Athena files missing
>
>
> So the old instructions were:
>
> > > >      rpm -ivh /sipb-nfs/redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/sets/Athena/*
>
> Should we just change that last line to:
>
> > > >      rpm -ivh /mit/linux/packages/*
>
> ? Will that install all the Redhat packages available, or just add the
> Athena ones?  I don't want the user to do the above command if it
> will just
> install every available package.
>
> --pat


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