Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:26:15 -0500 | From | Chris Chiappa <> | Subject | Re: [Off-Topic] Distribution 2.2-ready |
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On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 01:56:37PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > ifconfig, Huh? <griffon>KeyserSoze-ttyp2[94]~$ rpm -qf `which ifconfig` net-tools-1.46-1 From Changes.txt: - Net-tools 1.45 ; hostname -V
> mkswap/swapon, and several other things are outdated. <griffon>KeyserSoze-ttyp2[97]~$ rpm -qf `which swapon` mount-2.8a-2 - Mount 2.7l ; mount --version This is from a pretty vanilla RedHat 5.2 setup. Either Redhat *is* almost 2.2 ready or someone needs to updates Changes.txt. Are you sure your install is botched?
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/kerneld doesn't use kmod when available. True, this is a stupid thing that Redhat should have fixed ages ago. At least it doesn't *break* anything since kerneld won't load in 2.2.
> /etc/nsswitch.conf misbehaves in 2.1+. Don't have any experience, positive or negative, with this
> Red Hat 5.2 is not 2.2-ready. I'd say it's "close enough"...the only thing I've had to update is dhcpcd and I don't even think there *is* a dhcpcd which works with both 2.0 and 2.2.
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