On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 14:39, R P Herrold wrote: > I report herewith success doing an essentially unattended > yum -y upgrade > (I simply watched it) from aurora-0.4 to aurora-1.0 on sparc64 > architecture (a Sun Ultra Sparc I, with 256 M ram) > [ http://www.auroralinux.org/ ], in support of our Wings > product [ http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/ ]. I have > ported a large percentage of our packagings and Red Hat > RawHide current -- over 200 SRPMs -- with our autobuilder, > overnight, as I slept. > > [herrold@dhcp-4 herrold]$ uname -a > Linux dhcp-4.victim.lan 2.4.20-2.3sparc #1 Wed Jan 15 18:27:52 > EST 2003 sparc64 unknown > > Screenshot: http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/sparc-xfce.png > > There is a minor matter (already Buigzilla'ed) related to > adding recognition of the 'silo' bootloader, and getting > /etc/silo.conf updated: So: - cool screenshot - glad it works on sparc - have you told the aurora people? I'm sure spot will like to see that too. - I want to move the kernel stuff slightly out of yum anyway - to make it more flexible and not just kernel specific. - so the best thing to do for the kernel would be to write a small script that can take a handful of information (probably kernel, name, ver, etc) and add it properly to the silo.conf file then test and invoke silo. -sv
