From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:10:24 -0500 (EST) From: "P. Barrette" To: Michel Lanners cc: linuxppc-user-digest@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 2.2.x kernels and u grading software to minimum req. In-Reply-To: <199903030711.IAA28369@piglet.cpu.lu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: that would be nice, I just spend the last hour upgrading my i386 RH5.1 machine from rh's errata page (actually a mirror to it), and that was relatively painless. > .... which brings up a big question: Shouldn't there be upgrade areas > for LinuxPPC's releases, like there are for normal RedHat releases? It > seems to me that R4 still contains all the way old ackages, and that > the only updates available are from september last year or so... > I guess that would be nice too, but I'm under the impression that the linuxppc staff is substantially smaller than RH, correct me if I am wrong, so this strikes me as unlikely. > Then, this sparks a second question: how about actuallay changing the > packages list in the distribution, so that if I net-install LinuxPPC, I > will always have the latest&greatest, but also bug- and > security-problem-free instal _without_ doing manual upgrades later on? > I grabbed all the sources and they compiled ok once I applied Gary's glibc1_99 patch. > I had no problem upgrading most (and all the critical ones) from the > mentioned packages, though by getting the maintainer's official and > latest release (not .src.rpm's). > > Michel [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]