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Re: Red Hat installer via CVS ?



Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Fri Oct 20, 2000 at 02:21:34PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes:
> >
> >     Erik> It will fit.  Oh, yes.  It will.  ;-)
> >
> >     Erik> I'm sure it can be done.  Though we may need to switch to libc5 or uclibc or
> >     Erik> something more exotic (like the thin syscall wrapper libc thing on the RedHat
> >     Erik> installer).
> >
> >  Does Red Hat have anonymous CVS of their installer available?  What
> >  about other distributions, such as Caldera?  It would be good to have
> >  a spy line on their codes.
> 
> Re Caldera, I just asked Tim Riker (who quit from there a couple
> of weeks ago and now sits in a cubicle next to mine).  He says the
> latest and greatest is not available via CVS, but the latest released
> version can be grabbed from http://openlinux.org/lizard/
> 
> Re redhat, I do not know about CVS access (it is _not_ available from
> sources.redhat.com), but I have grabbed it from their ftp mirrors in the past.
> The latest released source can be grabbed from
>     http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/redhat/redhat/current/SRPMS/i386/SRPMS/anaconda-7.0.1-6.src.rpm
> 

Looks like Caldera's effort is under the QPL v1, thats the one that is
incompatable with the GPL problems isnt it ?

Redhat uses python, give me a compiler over an interpreter any day, we
dont need extra baggage to carry around.



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