[RULE] Slinky for Red Hat Linux 9

[Michael Fratoni]

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Slinky has been updated for Red Hat 9. 

It took a bit longer than expected, as the new glibc and the statically 
linked rpm binary the installer uses didn't get along. The solution I 
settled on was to rebuild the rpm-4.1-9 package on a Red Hat 9 system. I 
had to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 before compiling to get a build that 
would work in the installer environment.

The old version worked fine until it installed the glibc package, then it 
began segfaulting on every transaction. Since glibc is the fifth package 
installed, this wasn't at all useful. ;)

I haven't yet found a way to build rpm-4.2.x and link it statically. Red 
Hat no longer provides the static binary either. (Previously, the rpm 
binary was statically linked.)

Red Hat again did not include an i386 kernel package, nor did they release 
one for the updated kernel. I've built one, using the stock 
kernel${version}.src.rpm, and it is included in the .iso as 
/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.20-8RULE.i386.rpm

I have tested a Red Hat Linux 9 install, however, I haven't tested to see 
if the new rpm will play nice with older releases. That's a project for 
another evening.

Anyway, for the brave...
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/slinky/

Everything except the ISO is also on my server:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.7/

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