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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: SLS update: more info
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.055345.2823@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 05:53:45 GMT
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- Here is the release notes I mentioned. I posted these to the
- announce channel yesterday, but I have not seen them yet at
- our site. So sorry if you didn't get your days warning :-)
-
- Peter
- -----------------------------------------------------
-
- Announcing SLS 99 p2. This is a massive upgrade to the first
- three series 'a', 'b', and 'c'. So much has changed that
- just listing them is infeasible. Upgrading existing systems
- is a problem. Although this release has added support that
- in the future will allow a automatic upgrading scheme,
- it isn't finished yet. Someday, when things settle down a
- bit I will be addressing that problem.
-
- This release hopefully fixes most previously reported problems.
- Notable exceptions are: getty/ugetty (locking and or char loss may
- still not be perfect). Ftp seems to have a problem with ls (kernel?).
- Menu seems to have a problem with the change directory command.
- Login doesn't like the backspace key, and requires ^H instead.
- Note also, that this version of the kernel, and SCSI don't always
- get along.
-
- Some features of this release include: gcc 2.3.3, libc 4.2, many things
- recompiled to use the libc 4.2, a fixed sed, /etc/clock, screen, term,
- bc, cpio, rcs, zoneinfo, updated mailpak stuff (elm/uucp), shadow
- passwd support in everything, lilo 7, efs progs 11, a fixed DOS emulator,
- syslogd using SOCK_STREAM (as libc does), ispell now works for emacs,
- an info dir has been included to allow emacs info to work. An updated
- diff, lpr (configured correctly I hope), a fixed minicom, and system V
- init is now standard (modified to use syslog). The linux source includes
- have been fixed.
-
- There is also the addition of a setup script (/etc/syssetup) which is
- invoked at the end of doinstall to setup permissions and system specific
- features. The most important feature of this script is that it is
- stored in a very small package (a4/syssetup.taz), which can easily
- added to and refined as problems are identified.
-
- Tcpip is now setup in such a way that most normal users can configure it
- by just using sethostname and domainname, editing /etc/inet/hosts,
- and then running the script /etc/inet/hostcvt.build to generate
- the proper name server files from the hosts file. I will add this
- to syssetup soon.
-
- The shadow passwd suite now has a frontend for compiling existing
- getpw* applications just by defining SHADOW_PWD when compiling
- and adding -lshadow when linking. Setgid shadow is also required.
-
- The version of the kernel supplied has been compiled with two
- patches in. The first is the ipcbeta patches to give interprocess
- communication and shared memory. The other is selection, which allows
- using the mouse to cut and paste on the console. The latter requires running
- selection first. Do "selection -h" to see the parameters I
- added to it to allow mouse type selection etc.
-
- I am slowly working on collecting source, but it is a lower priority
- to me than the binaries. This because, although those who want source,
- want it really bad, the majority of people don't have the disk space
- for source, or don't have the need, or both. Also my time is limited.
- But mainly, I do not currently compile most of SLS. Many components
- are compiled by others. However, I am collecting together sources for
- things I do compile, as a start. When it is ready, you will see it.
-
- As usual, bug reports are appreciated.
-