Re: Redhat 6.1

[Dan Frasnelli <dfrasnel alphalinux org>]

> I wonder how Redhat beta's their software, does anyone know?  I for one
> have never seen beta releases for Redhat on Alpha.

Sure you have, remember the 5.9 beta? Keep in mind that this
public beta release trend is fairly recent - in the past, testing was
done behind closed doors.  One of the big problems RH has right
now is a lack of staff who use/want to use the Alpha platform.  Last I
heard - about 3 months ago - there was only one engineer with an Alpha on 
his desk.  Maybe somebody at RH would like to chime in and correct me? I
hope? 

If you're into beta testing RH releases, you can always build the distro
from the srpms.  Fwiw, most of the lorax srpms rebuild under glibc-2.1.1
without a hitch; building glibc-2.1.2 itself is where a lot of errors pop
up.  I should have a sparc here shortly to test whether glibc-2.1.2 builds
cleanly on that arch or not. 

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Dan Frasnelli
Security analyst