[RULE] Slinky for Red Hat Linux 9

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:31 am, Santos, Luis-Rodrigues wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Michael Fratoni 

> > Ok, I've done some testing. Slinky-v0.3.7 (and it's new rpm binary)
> > works fine for at least 7.3, 8.0, and 9 (Booting from a floppy and
> > installing via cdrom). That's all I've had time to test. I wanted to
> > be sure the rpm binary was going to work with older releases.

> I've tested Slinky-v0.3.7 from CD iso image and from the floopies with
> RH 7.2 and I was unable to boot.
>
> The problem is originated on the rpm package that is version 4.1 in
> slinky-v0.3.7. and RH 7.2  brings version 4.0.3-1. I copied the rpm.gz
> from v0.3.6 floppy to the v.0.3.7 floopy and the installation went
> without errors and booting was ok too.

This should now be fixed in slinky-v0.3.8. I moved the rpm binary used by 
the installer to prevent it being overwritten when the stock rpm package 
installs. The installer now uses the provided binary until all packages 
are installed. The binary is then removed.

I've tested a 7.2 install, it worked, the machine rebooted after the 
install completed. rpm's database appears to be intact and functional.

Additionally, I've now added a new function to the installer. The user is 
prompted (forced, actually) to create and set a password for a non-root 
user account during install.

New images are here:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.8/
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.8/

Thanks again for the install report as well as the offlist log file.
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pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/
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