On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Troy Dawson wrote: > Hi Jon, > Thanks for testing. > What do you have listed in your kickstart for packages. Obviously it lists pine, though we are using a locally built pine package which has the 'chappa' patches applied so we don't actually use the SL pine package. I see that the chappa patches are already available for alpine so I may as well build a local alpine package for testing. http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/ http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/ Hitorically while pine was maintained some of Chappa's patches used to make it into the next release and judging from http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/indexold.html it seems that a number have already been incorporated into alpine 1.00. > We purposely left both alpine and pine in the distribution. Alpine is newer > and looks like it now has support, which pine doesn't. But we figured there > might be enough changed in it that some users want their old pine. Fair enough. I just wasn't expecting alpine to be listed 'cos previously pine wasn't installed by default... Before we make alpine the default we will probably want to offer both for a while, so we will need to hack things to allow us to install both packages. > I had seen that conflict when I first put them in, because I had them both > listed in the text-internet section. But then I took pine out of the comps > and put alpine in and didn't see the error again. I hadn't thought of > looking at kickstarts. > > And, yes, it was intentional that it is default in text-internet and optional > in misc-sl. Everything in misc-sl is optional. While if someone is > installing text-internet they want a text based mail reader, and pine (or > alpine) is what most people think of. > > How big of a problem do people think this is? No problem at all. Adding a one-line item next to alpine in the release notes mentioning that it is incldued by default with 'text-internet' would have saved a few mins of searching. > Troy > p.s. We released RC 2.5 last night, before I read this. As far as pine and > alpine goes, there was no change. I'll hopefully get round to trying RC2.5 today. -- Jon