[2194] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: FW: Linux Athena files missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Oct 1 21:42:21 1998
To: "Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi@MIT.EDU>
Cc: <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Oct 1998 21:42:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Patrick McCormick"'s message of Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:23:26 -0400
1) this command will not work (there are no packages in
/mit/linux/packages, they are in /mit/linux/packages/XXX/)
2) You don't want to do this, because it will try to install
both athena-* and srvd-athena-* packages, which conflict.
3) there are conflicts between some Athena packages and some
standard packages, which the Linux-Athena installation takes care of.
The instructions should be changed so that the user who wants to layer
Linux-Athena on top of a standard RedHat installation should go into
the proper directory and install the appropriate packages by hand.
In the future I would like to see a better way of doing it, either via
a script of something like "update_ws". But for now they get to
install packages by hand. Note, they can probably just install afs
and then install athena-*.rpm.
-derek
"Patrick McCormick" <pmccormi@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> 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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