>>>>> "csieh" == csieh <[log in to unmask]> writes: csieh> All of the zz's that we included are of a "general" nature. Most fix bugs csieh> that any audience will need. Also most are NOT installed by default. csieh> Letting the end user decide. csieh> The zz prefix was used for all the "fixes" that we did. The original csieh> reason for zz was that the installer on the "old" releases did not have csieh> enough of a "requires,prereq" function and in alot of cases we needed csieh> these to be installed after "something". The installer installed things csieh> that is did not have any special ordering in alphabetical order. And csieh> "zz" is very far down the alphabet. And if they all have the same naming csieh> covention it is easy to find them. Some RPMS we fix by fixing the csieh> "original" rpm. I do not like this way as much as they "fixit" rpms csieh> mostly because "the original was changed" and many seem to have a problem csieh> with that. You also have to keep up with the change when errata come out. csieh> With the "fixit" rpms the change is very contained. Fine with me. the "zz" prefix is why I stumbled across them, nothing more (so in a sense, they _were_ easy to spot :-). We normally still change the original RPM or (more often) hand out the customization things to some script to be run after install time (SUE was full of such things). >> zz_desktop_tweeks-1.1-1 >> zz_inittab_change-1.0-4 >> zz_kernel_clean-1.0-2 >> zz_libg2c.a_change-3.2.3-1 >> zz_no_colorls-1.0-1 >> zz_sendmail_accept-1.0-2 .. csieh> These did NOT come from RHE3 they came from RedHat 9. Same exact rpm as csieh> shown by diff. If you look at the date of the rpm you will see that they csieh> are from the RedHat 9 time frame. RedHat did NOT recompile them for csieh> RHE3 they got them from RedHat 9. Since RedHat 9 is freely distributatble csieh> then I can put them in and so I did. Of course. I just stumbled across the building machine name, and as Troy has remarked, counted everyhing with "redhat" in the package name as well.. csieh> I was hoping that you would provide us with the AMD-64 and maybe itanium csieh> rpms as we are kind of short of development hardware in these csieh> areas. These trees should be available from http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/cel3/{ia64,amd64} (still not finalized yet, but the IA64 stuff has been successfully tested so far by CASPUR) Regards jan