[CLUE-Tech] Preparing for RH7.2

[Michael Robbert]

Jed,
What are you upgrading from? I was watching the beta list before 7.2 
came out and there were some similar comments about packages missing, 
although not necesarily the same as yours. Red Hat commented that they 
deprecated a bunch of packages earlier than 7.1 -> 7.2. They also got 
rid of powertools which a lot of people didn't like as that is where a 
lot of the packages in question were. I don't have RedHat booted right 
now so I can't look up your particular questions right now, but your 
assumptions/questions look fairly accurate. I personally wouldn't worry 
about it too much, none of those look too out of the ordinary so there 
will be some equivalent available. Hope somebody else can provide a 
little more info for you.
About the kernel config, I have wanted the same thing for some time. I 
recently built a custom kernel then ran "make mrproper" which apparently 
removed the .config. I was pretty mad. On the other hand unless you have 
some odd harware or really want to clean things up for a smaller kernel 
I'd just stick with the RedHat stock kernel as it has pretty much 
everything you're going to need.

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Greetings, folks.
> 
> Well, here I am, seriously contemplating upgrading to RH7.2 over the
> weekend. Looking through the CDs, I find some things missing. Probably
> just cruft on my box, but I wonder about these things. I looked around on
> the web, and the RH site, but I couldn't find a list of
> "deprecated/replaced" packages. Seems like that would be a reasonable
> thing to publish.
> 
> I'm also wondering if there is any easy way to get a dump of my kernel
> configuration options. I'm assuming that copying .config into the new
> kernel tree would work, because it wouldn't match up with new/changed
> stuff. Not that there's much in the way of wierdness in my kernel, but not
> having to go through my current config and type a bunch of stuff in a text
> file, or rely on my brain to remember things would be sorta nice.
> Something like a "make report" command.
> 
> So, here's my list of "hmmmm" packages. For the most part, it's the lib
> stuff, and svgalib I'm concerned about. Any comments? I have a whole
> 'nother list of stuff I'll probably have to upgrade by downloading.
> 
> control-panel
>  - replaced by control-center?
> glib2 glib2-devel
>  - not needed for newer Gnome?
> ld.so
>  - replaced by what linker, gcc?
> libc
> modemtool
>  - dependent upon pythonlib
>  - can't think why I need it
> netcfg
>  - replaced by netconfig?
>  - dependent upon pythonlib
> printtool
>  - replaced by printconf?
> pythonlib
>  - no longer used by RH?
>  - used by modemtool and netcfg
> rgrep
> rhs-printfilters
>  - bundled with printconf?
> svgalib
> svgalib-devel
> timetool
>  - replaced by timeconfig?
> tksysv
>  - no longer used by control-center?
> xpaint
>  - so rarely used, I'm not sure I care
> xtt-fonts
>  - I probably don't need Japanese ;-)
> 
> TIA.
> jed
> 


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