On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:22:50AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > Florian, > > Thanks for the response. One area is still unanswered, though. How is this > update going to be stored on the FTP server? What directories will it be > in? The same ones as the original GA version, or somewhere else? I ask > because I'd like to be able to very clearly explain to anyone who asks, just > what is what, and how to tell them apart, etc.
Not discussed yet AFAIK. :-) I personally would expect a new subdirectoy leaving the old thing in place. That would then also allow a clean comparison on what the changes are. Just overwriting an existing path only creates confusion and problems. (On top of the many ftp-download problems I see for the mainframe. Only measure we took for this are md5sum files, maybe a future version can do better checks within the installer as well.) cu, Florian La Roche > > Thanks again. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian La Roche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390 > > > 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
