Ok... so what's RPM? Anyone know? Any lessons to learn here? Or people to cooperate with?
-- Raul Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 10:38:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-alpha@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Red Hat Alpha Packages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk As some of you may have guessed, Red Hat (well me, but I'm a part of Red Hat!) is actively working on an Alpha distribution. I've built 55 packages so far as part of this effort, and they are now available for ftp. The primary site for them is ftp.redhat.com:/pub/axp, but that machine has a 28.8 link to the net. Luckily we have lots of mirrors, and I've placed a list of them at the end of this note. All of these are packaged with RPM. RPM requires perl5, which I've made available as an RPM. Of course, this is a chicken and egg problem. To help alleviate this, I've placed "perl5.cpio.gz" in the the rpm directory. Luckily, cpio builds easily. There are a couple of interesting things about RPM: 1) the source RPM's (SRPM) build on both i386 and axp architechtures. This is true of everything except mkbb 2) to rebuild an RPM from source, the command "rpm --rebuild -v file.src.rpm" will rebuild and repackage everything. this provides a nice regression test as well as simple upgrading to new libc versions More information on all of this is available at http://www.redhat.com for the interested. Lot's of stuff in these packages in known (to me) to be broken, but please tell me everything you find anyway. Also note that there are not enough RPM's to install a system (libc and binutils are still missing), but I'm working on it! Erik ---- mirrors of ftp.redhat.com FTP Site Directory ======== ========= ftp.pht.com /pub/linux/redhat sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/distributions/redhat sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /packages/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/redhat/redhat-2.0 ftp.cms.uncwil.edu /linux/redhat ftp.wilmington.net /linux/redhat ftp.caldera.com /pub/mirrors/redhat ftp.lasermoon.co.uk /pub/distributions/RedHat ftp.cc.gatech.edu /pub/linux/distributions/redhat uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu /pub/systems/linux/distributions/redhat ftp.ibp.fr /pub/linux/distributions/redhat ftp.gwdg.de /pub/linux/install/redhat ftp.uoknor.edu /linux/redhat ftp.msu.ru /pub/Linux/RedHat linux.ucs.indiana.edu /pub/linux/redhat ftp.cvut.cz /pub/linux/redhat ftp.ton.tut.fi /pub/Linux/RedHat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks" - Adlai Stevenson Erik Troan = http://sunsite.unc.edu/ewt/ = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
