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Dear fellow slackers:

The first review of the brand new SLackware-12.0 is here:
<http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/slackware-12.0.html>

We hope you will not only enjoy reading this writeup by
Michiel van Wessem but will also find it useful.

--
Mikhail Zotov on behalf of The Slack World Team

On 2007-07-08, Mikhail Zotov <invalid_muxaul@lenta.ru> wrote:

> We hope you will not only enjoy reading this writeup by
> Michiel van Wessem but will also find it useful.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zotov on behalf of The Slack World Team

Very nice and with a lot of truly useful info not likely to be found
in a typical software flak piece. Thank you.

nb ...Slack subscriber

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:53:21 -0500
notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:

> On 2007-07-08, Mikhail Zotov <invalid_muxaul@lenta.ru> wrote:
>
> > We hope you will not only enjoy reading this writeup by
> > Michiel van Wessem but will also find it useful.
>
> Very nice and with a lot of truly useful info not likely to be found
> in a typical software flak piece. Thank you.
>

Thanks for the kind words, notbob :-)

--
Mikhail

Mikhail Zotov wrote:

> Dear fellow slackers:
>
> The first review of the brand new SLackware-12.0 is here:
> <http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/slackware-12.0.html>


thank you, i've posted this link to the italian linux and slackware groups.

nice work

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On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Mikhail Zotov wrote:

>
> Dear fellow slackers:
>
> The first review of the brand new SLackware-12.0 is here:
> <http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/slackware-12.0.html>
>
> We hope you will not only enjoy reading this writeup by
> Michiel van Wessem but will also find it useful.


Nice review, I do have few comments though, based on a single test upgrade
of a non critical server.

slapt-get dist upgrades, tells you that you need to upgrade those 3 key
packages first, this has worked flawlessly for several version upgrades,
the only thing that caught me out was the tcpip splitting, which wasn't
an issue until I removed Pats list of "to be removed old packages",
Slapt-get is not (rightfully) intelligent enough to know the splitting
up of tcpip and the need to install the net-tools package plus the several
other netkit packages that make up what used to be there.


Now, unrelated to the article, but might be of interest to others...

As I've only done this upgrade on one server so far ,I can't tell if it
will happen on all but with many extra perl mods and updates from CPAN
admins are forever installing to keep scripts happy, I found I had the
infamous gzipopen undefined blah at line 57xx error, that simply needed
a ' find /usr/lib/perl5 -name Zlib.pm -exec rm {}\;' and re running of
CPAN before it (or perl -MCPAN) could do anything usefull.


Lastly, we have been using 2.6 kernel for a while, custom built, it is
not an error as everything worked just perfect, just new LILO changes
warning about device-mapper, recompiled that option into the kernel
( device drivers -> multi-device support ), then rebooted, warning gone.


That server has been running for over 24 hours now and appears as stable
as any other.


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Cheers
Res
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 09:04:03 +1000 (EST)
Res <res@ausics.net> wrote:

First of, thank you for the interesting comments.

....
> Lastly, we have been using 2.6 kernel for a while, custom built, it is
> not an error as everything worked just perfect, just new LILO changes
> warning about device-mapper, recompiled that option into the kernel
> ( device drivers -> multi-device support ), then rebooted, warning gone.

As far as I can judge, this warning of lilo is harmless,
and one may ignore it if device-mapper is not needed.

Cheers,
Mikhail

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On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Mikhail Zotov wrote:

> First of, thank you for the interesting comments.

Your welcome.

>> warning about device-mapper, recompiled that option into the kernel
>> ( device drivers -> multi-device support ), then rebooted, warning gone.
>
> As far as I can judge, this warning of lilo is harmless,
> and one may ignore it if device-mapper is not needed.

Yes, it is harmless, just annoying, if I leave it there one of the juniors
might panic and annoy me in the middle of the night so I rather get rid of
it

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Cheers
Res
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