[2378] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Releasing Linux-Athena 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Jan 12 13:29:16 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 12 Jan 1999 13:29:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:04:39 -0500"
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I think that we do. RedHat 5.2 comes with bind-8.1.2. The "comps"
> file on sipb-nfs installs both the "DNS name server" category and the
> "athena-named-conf" package by default.
Oops, you're right. Yay. I wonder why jastr was seeing class HS
lossage on rothenburg then.
> > Linux a.out executables [...] will probably fail to run
> > on RedHat 5.2 (because of shared library incompatabilities)...
>
> I know about the aout-libs package, and I fully stand by every word in
> the quoted paragraph. Linux a.out executables simply don't work very
> well on RedHat 5.2 systems no matter what shared libs you have
> installed. For that and other reasons (memory and disk space wasted
> on old shared libs), they should be rebuilt.
I agree that rebuilding is a good idea (which is why I didn't CC
locker-maintainers on that comment); it's just not actually always
necessary.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
