Re: Red Hat 5.0 Release date
Everything sounds good to me except:
Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> writes:
> 1. Building a set of boot floppies, and sending the patches back
> to Sven. I would probably also build a binary kernel package or three
> if someone else doesn't. We need zImage and bzImage kernels for this
> release. Also, I would build a 2.1.65 (or higher) package because it
> has some devices and stuff the 2.0 kernel is lacking.
I just tonight installed 2.1.65 on my system. It mistakenly thought
it had two CPUs and of course locked while trying to talk to the
(nonpresent) 2nd one. This apparently is a known bug in 2.1.65. I am
leery about packaging a 2.1.x kernel of any sort. IF we do it, it
should NOT be the default and should be CLEARLY marked as UNSTABLE
with DIRE WARNINGS in ALL CAPS and **BLINKING** all over the place :-)
> 3. Modifying my debian-cd package to make both CDs bootable, so that you
> can have alternate kernels on the source CD.
Also modifying it to work with hamm at all. See my bug report.
> 4. Writing a shell-and-dialog hack that would run dpkg --set-selections
> to set common configurations for your Debian system and install them,
> saving the common man from having to run dselect. Should have done this
> in 1.3 .
EXCELLENT idea.
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