Re: experiences with 20021018 snapshot

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:01:48PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> I think I'm very close to getting up2date 2.8 working on Red Hat 6.0;
> I'll send an e-mail to the list about that later.

Yes, I got it working. The big change from the 6.0 instructions (in my
previous message) is that you need to install newt 0.50 from Red Hat
6.1, as well as RH 6.1's versions of all the packages that complain that
they need newt 0.40. This also means uninstalling rhs-hwdiag and, at
your discretion, installing kudzu instead.

The traceback now is from the XFree86-3.3.5-1.6.0.i386.rpm package from
the 6.0 errata. (I'm pretty sure this is a clean tree.) I don't remember
the exact text, but it looks similar to the one from RH 6.1's raidtools
package.

Now that I have 6.0 working as a client, I'm making an attempt with 5.1.
I fully expect this to fail, but that's what I thought about running
up2date 2.7/2.8 on RH 6.0 a few hours ago, so stay tuned... (BTW, I'm
not just doing this for my curiosity -- I have real reasons for doing
this. In a more ideal world I'd just force everyone to upgrade to RH
7.3, or at least 6.2, but I don't have that kind of power at my site.)

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>