Fedora Core 5: Revisited
Since my last post was about all of the trouble we had had with Fedora Core 5, I figured that my next post should be a follow up of the progress we have made towards getting it ready to be ghosted around the lab.
Today I happened to check the OpenAFS website for a possible release of 1.4.1 final FC5 RPMs. Instead, I found some RPMs for 1.4.1 Release Candidate 10 FC5 RPMs… Feeling adventurous, I downloaded the SRPMS and started to build the packages and kernel modules. To my surprise, they actually worked! No compile errors, no sketchy spec file editing, no kernel editing, no nothing. So now it is just a matter of copying the crontab, scripts I have written, and requested software to FC5 and I’m ready to ghost again!
Though…I wonder if I should have just waited for 1.4.1 final to come out…
