Hello,
This is now resolved via the YUM mailing list.
There is a deficeincy in the yum documentation.
The yum man pages fail to detail the required files and directory structures
that are required to. PRE-EXIST in the —installroot path.
'yum —installroot' could not substitute the proper
On 03/02/2020 22:12, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>
>
>> On 3. Feb 2020, at 21:11, David Sommerseth
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/02/2020 17:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> *No one* calls it "Oracle 8". It's still RHEL 8. Oracle now owns and
>>> can still use the Red Hat trademarks.
>>
>> No, not at all.
I just know how it's supposed to work. I don't build the OS.
From: Stephan Wiesand
Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 15:39
To: ONeal, Miles <0be99a30c213-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov>
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov
Subject: Re: EL 8
Caution: EXTERNAL
> On 3. Feb 2020, at 22:23, ONeal, Miles
> <0be99a30c213-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> And there's no real reason to get the source from anywhere but RHEL, since
> it's freely available.
Care to share a pointer to the freely available SRPM for one of today's
updates, like
A fork is a point in time clone, after which the original and the fork do their
own things (which may include the fork getting new/changed code from the
original and/or vice versa). A fork is not a perpetual downstream dependency.
Oracle claims OL is not a fork. If they are truly only providing
> On 3. Feb 2020, at 21:11, David Sommerseth
> wrote:
>
> On 01/02/2020 17:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> *No one* calls it "Oracle 8". It's still RHEL 8. Oracle now owns and
>> can still use the Red Hat trademarks.
>
> No, not at all. It was IBM who acquired Red Hat; but IBM has so far kept
> On 3. Feb 2020, at 21:05, David Sommerseth
> wrote:
>
> On 01/02/2020 04:35, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> Since I write firmware myself, the function to upgrade the firmware on
>> a running system without having the reboot the OS is pretty much
>> the first thing that I implement (during
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 1:26 PM Pwillis wrote:
> From my personal, outsider, view the ‘Distribution’ thing is a major
> bottleneck with the long term stability of Linux. Distributions dilute the
> focus on maintenence by dividing the available labour resource over a
> foolish duplication of
On 02/02/2020 11:18, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> It's called just "Oracle Linux" these days I think. And well, up to 7 there
> was SL.
That's right. It might be Oracle dropped the "Unbreakable" soon after Red Hat
started a PR stunt talking about "Unfakeable Linux"
On 01/02/2020 17:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> *No one* calls it "Oracle 8". It's still RHEL 8. Oracle now owns and
> can still use the Red Hat trademarks.
No, not at all. It was IBM who acquired Red Hat; but IBM has so far kept Red
Hat as a separate company/brand with its own organization.
On 01/02/2020 04:35, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> Since I write firmware myself, the function to upgrade the firmware on
> a running system without having the reboot the OS is pretty much
> the first thing that I implement (during firmware development,
> rebooting the OS to load each new firmware
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