Re: Moving to 2.2...

["Aaron M. Theriault" <aaron chatnet com>]

>

Take a look at this site: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/ this site has 34586
RPMs representing 45265 MBytes of data for all versions of linux. Hope this
helps.

Aaron M. Theriault
aaron chatnet com


> Hello!
>
> I'm anxiously waiting the final release of 2.2, which will hopefully
> happen on Monday.  I'm looking over my systems now, comparing it to the
> information on:
>
>   http://www-stu.calvin.edu/~clug/users/jnieho38/goto22.html
>
> to make sure I'll be ready.  I have some questions which I would like to
> ask the readers of this list.  The following contain the recommended items
> and the ones I'm using on my 5.2 systems:
>
> gcc 2.7.2.3        :  My system - 2.7.2.3-14
> binutils 2.8.1.0.23:  My system - 2.9.1.0.15-1
> glibc 2.0.7pre6    :  My system - 2.0.7-29
> libg++ 2.7.2.8     :  My system - 2.7.2.8-9
> procps 1.2.9       :  My system - 1.2.9-2
> psmisc 17          :  My system - 17-3
> loadlin 1.6a       :  My system - not installed, not needed
> sh-utils 1.16      :  My system - 1.16-14
> autofs 3.1.1       :  My system - 3.1.1-8
> nfs 2.2beta37      :  My system - not installed (not sure why, exactly!)
> bash 1.14.7        :  My system - 1.14.7-13
> ncpfs 2.2.0        :  My system - not installed, not needed
> pcmcia-cs 3.0.6    :  My system - not installed, not needed
> ppp 2.3.5          :  My system - 2.3.5-1
> util-linux 2.9     :  My system - 2.8-11
>
> modutils 2.1.121   :  My system - 2.1.85-9   ** OUT OF DATE **
> libc 5.4.46        :  My system - 5.3.12-28  ** OUT OF DATE **
> ld.so 1.9.9        :  My system - 1.9.5-8    ** OUT OF DATE **
> procinfo 15        :  My system - 14-2       ** OUT OF DATE **
> net-tools 1.49     :  My system - 1.46-1     ** OUT OF DATE **
>
> As you can see, I have a number of items that need to be updated before
> moving to 2.2.  Are these available in RPM format (I try to avoid using
> 'tarballs' because they cause the rpm database to become out-of-date and
> useless)?
>
> I should add that I've downloaded and applied all updates for 5.2 as of
> January 23, 1999.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
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