[weird] Re: rpm install with "--disable-threads" for 9.2.1x ??

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:04:50AM -0800, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > Why did you build RPMs?  Unless you have multiple systems with the same
> > OS on which to load these, or you rely on the RPM bookkeeppingg [;-)],
> 
> Well, two fold. 
> 
> (A) The system in question was an old redhat-6.2; 2.2.14 kernel with
> no-threading, and I was hoping just to do a simple rpm -Fvh (freshen) to
> keep all my startup scripts intact. That decision was made easy "since"
> I found the newest rpms on redhat's site. 
> 
> (B) The system is coming up for a complete rebuild with the newer rh-7.3
> system soon and this was just a form of exercise prompted by the latest
> BIND scare.
> 
> The best part was the new information I learned about the bind.spec file
> with this process. Usually these rpm installs DO spoil us/me and it was
> nice to go hack into something to get it to work.  :)

Makes sense!  ;-)

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