Hey Erich: I was merely using it as an example. While I haven't tested RHEL3u6 yet, I have tested the beta of RHEL4u3 and it is working fine.
However, I remember previously that we do not support a particular update version of RHEL3, so I just want to make sure that we have something in place to take care of this. But if you think this won't really happen, then that's fine too. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Erich Focht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:31 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] OS_Detect changes > > Hi Bernard, > > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 17:29, Bernard Li wrote: > > Hi Erich: > > > > So how do I go about restricting that trunk supports > RHEL3u5 but not RHEL3u6? Do I put the code in RedHat.pm or > somewhere else? > > Can you please explain why you want to restrict the usage and > not allow > RHEL3U6? Our HPCLinux 3.2 works flawlessly with RHEL3U6, so > if we don't fully > support that distribution at least the installer should not > simply stop and > say OSCAR won't work. That would be wrong policy, IMO, > because a small bug > might be much easier to fix if OSCAR gives you the chance to hit it. > > I will add some code for checking for working distributions. > IMO this should > be separated from the detection, because detection should > allways tell you > what you have found, and should be usable also on systems > which we don't > support fully, yet. > > I did not plan to take into account the real distro name, > only the compat > distro name. Also I didn't plan to use the release number of > the distro as we > don't care about the release number in the > packages/*/distro/* directories > anyway. OSCAR is agnostic to release numbers and the only > problem we ever had > (IIRC) was due to RedHat changing the way how they deal with > executable stack > in the middle of RHEL3. I'd consider that an exception which > can be solved > with a docfix and shouldn't mislead us to overly restrict the > usage of OSCAR. > > Regards, > Erich > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
