On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> I just burned all the update RPMS to a cdrom and then do a "rpm -F" which
> "freshens", or
> updates only the previously installed packages.
>
Is this rpm -F 100% safe ?
Is there a way to upgrade all rpms without the need of installing all updates
in
Benno Senoner wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> > I just burned all the update RPMS to a cdrom and then do a "rpm -F" which
> > "freshens", or
> > updates only the previously installed packages.
> >
>
> Is this rpm -F 100% safe ?
>
> Is there a way to upgrade all rpms with
> >
> > While I'm not the one to make such decisions, I'd say that we'll
> > switch to gcc when it becomes feasible to do so. In any case,
> > we'll work on removing the compiler dependencies out of the
> > distribution.
> >
>
> Spec files are made for people who are supposed to be knowledgeabl
>
>
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> On 24/12/99 at 15:30 Justin Cormack wrote:
>
> >
> >Well I am inclined to report this as a bug with major security
> implications.
> >
> >As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password
> >if you have explicitly reque
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Justin Cormack wrote:
>
> > I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an
> > alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the
> > root password.
>
> > This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this
> > and
At 13:26 12/27/99 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>> I just burned all the update RPMS to a cdrom and then do a "rpm -F" which
>> "freshens", or updates only the previously installed packages.
>
>Is this rpm -F 100% safe ?
I've done it a couple times now wi
This may be of interest to some:
http://www.tachyonsoft.com/tosover.html
It's an emulator for IBm S/370 and S/390 mainframes.
I have no more information than is available from the above pages which
mention that
1 It runs on Linux
2 Runs OS/390 programs
It does not mention the PC/39
I came into this thread late, but this touched on somthing I've been
strugling with. I'm trying to make a new ISO image that includes all of
the latest updates. Integrating the new RPMs is easy, but 6.1 the
installer in 6.1 is basically useless without the updates. I tried to make
a disk with the
