Florian, Just so I better understand what your and Red Hat's maintenance "philosophy" is, could you explain whether the results of this beta will be moved into the 7.2 GA "updates" directory, or will a "7.2a" be created, or "7.3," or something else? Just where will this be put, and how will people know that it is different from the original 7.2 GA, etc., etc. This will be the first time I and a lot of other people have been exposed to this, and it would be very helpful if you could talk about it at some length. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Florian La Roche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390 The current "rawhide" version incorporates a lot of patches for the kernel, glibc, gcc, the installation environment etc. Please test ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ and let us know about any problems left. Please also note that the latest OCO modules from IBM for the Red Hat Linux kernel 2.4.9-37 contain a special "ocord.img" which allows installation of Red Hat Linux via OCO drivers. Details in our docs. We welcome testing of this current "rawhide" version, but please understand that future uploads to this url might again change to more "development releases". For the real adventurous here who want to look at gcc-3.1: We have slightly tested binutils-2.12.90.0.7-1 and gcc3-3.1-1. You can compile these from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/ and test them on S/390 and zSeries. This should really be done by more advanced users and only on Linux guests you can delete if things go really wrong. cu, Florian La Roche
