From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:10:04 +0000 Subject: Jan11 changes in UP1.1.9 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hi! The changes made today in ftp://ultra.linux.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1.9/ are mostly related to the installer: - Fixed tape install, now it should work with all tape blocksizes and all combinations of selected packages. Please note that at least my SS20 does not handle blocksizes larger than 16K for tapeboot.img (ie. the bootable image at the beginning of the tape). - Fix for bootdisk making/installing bootloader for kernels 2.2.0*pre* (it got confused by kernel called 2.2.0.pre*, while uname and files in it being 2.2.0-pre*). That's why e.g. installing SILO failed with Jan, 8th kernel. - Fixes to the Alt+F3,Alt+F4 and Alt+F5 logging (RedHat made it wrong) (there is one more bug I forgot to fix with exec.log for serial install, but it is not harmful; I'll fix it in the next release). The last bugfix revealed some broken packages, so here are fixes: XFree86-ISO8859-2 - prerequires textutils, otherwise does not install properly XFree86-ISO8859-9 - ditto ld.so - prerequires sh-utils, grep, fileutils (this explains e.g. why ld-linux.so.1 used to be a hard link to ld4cdm-linux.so.1 even on Ultra - ie. did not work on sun4u) pamconfig - prerequires textutils pam - security fix from RedHat The updated CD will be there in a few minutes. Next release should hopefully include updated glibc, so that the default nsswitch.conf does not mention nis/nisplus (the well known tar slowdowns), plus implement vfork, as it will speed several things a lot. Many packages already use vfork, which has been till now the same function as fork. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/ Linux version 2.2.0-pre6 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________