On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:43:12AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > Florian, > > Just so I better understand what your and Red Hat's maintenance "philosophy" > is, could you explain whether the results of this beta will be moved into > the 7.2 GA "updates" directory, or will a "7.2a" be created, or "7.3," or > something else? Just where will this be put, and how will people know that
Hello Mark, Normally Red Hat only provides "full" releases and all updates are then available as rpm packages from the ftp-server and also via our automated update mechanism Red Hat Network (RHN). Since the mainframe needs networking during the installation phase, we are doing a special update of our base distribution of Red Hat Linux 7.2 for S/390 in addition of providing those updates also for existing users on our ftp-server. So there is no difference between updating an existing installation and installing from this newer version. cu, Florian La Roche > it is different from the original 7.2 GA, etc., etc. This will be the first > time I and a lot of other people have been exposed to this, and it would be > very helpful if you could talk about it at some length. Thanks in advance > for any insight you can provide. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian La Roche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390 > > > The current "rawhide" version incorporates a lot of patches for the kernel, > glibc, gcc, the installation environment etc. > > Please test ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ and let us > know > about any problems left. Please also note that the latest OCO modules from > IBM > for the Red Hat Linux kernel 2.4.9-37 contain a special "ocord.img" which > allows installation of Red Hat Linux via OCO drivers. Details in our docs. > > We welcome testing of this current "rawhide" version, but please understand > that > future uploads to this url might again change to more "development > releases". > > > For the real adventurous here who want to look at gcc-3.1: We have slightly > tested binutils-2.12.90.0.7-1 and gcc3-3.1-1. You can compile these from > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/ and test them on > S/390 and zSeries. This should really be done by more advanced users and > only > on Linux guests you can delete if things go really wrong. > > cu, > > Florian La Roche
