[HECnet] [PiDP-11] Re: Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS --> Tcp/Ip?

[Johnny Billquist]

Ok. Thanks for inspiring me.

I now also have TCP/IP as a package under RPM.

A couple of comments about it are in place:

1) It's *big* You'll need atleast about 25.000 free blocks to install or 
update. So nothing for anyone with an RL02 as the system disk.

2) It will do the install/update, but it will not start TCP/IP. You will 
still need the separate scripts for TCP/IP in LB:[1,2]STARTUP.CMD in 
order to start the whole thing. RPM can only be used for the updating of 
the system.

3) Because of some issues, RPM will also not be able to automatically 
handle any updates to your IP configuration as such. So after doing an 
update of TCP/IP, you might want to do that by hand, which is done by 
running "LB:[IP]IPCONFIG UPD". If you are downloading the distribution 
itself, things runs just like before.

4) Depending on your internet connection, updating this package might 
take a little while. I have also observed some issues with some sneaky 
FTP proxy interfering with FTP transfers from MIM. If you are getting 
errors and timeouts doing transfers over FTP, try changing the source to 
be mim.update.uu.se:10021 instead.

   Johnny

On 2020-05-31 10:04, R. Voorhorst wrote:
> Nice functionality to arrive so easily at a well-kept updated environment!
> Big question now obviously appearing:  will TCP/IP follow suit or is that not so suitable concerning the host machine?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Reindert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Sunday, 31 May, 2020 02:24
> To: Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com>; hecnet at update.uu.se
> Cc: Info-PDP11 at dbit.com; SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>; [PiDP-11] <pidp-11 at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [PiDP-11] Re: [HECnet] Announcing RPM, a software packet manager for RSX-11M-PLUS
> 
> On 2020-05-30 22:04, Mark Matlock wrote:
>>
>>> On May 30, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since I'm on a roll today, I figure I should announce the availability of a new tool for RSX, which I think most hobbyists will find rather useful.
>>>
>>> RPM is a packet manager for RSX (it has nothing to do with the Red Hat Packet Manager, except the name).
>>
>> Johnny,
>>       I love not only the new RPM software repository tool but also all the updated software tools. A few of the software packages that RPM listed were even new to me!
> 
> You're welcome. And have have *lots* of more software. It will just take a lot of time to work through it all and create packages for it.
> 
>>       Also, I was behind in getting the latest versions of your NEMA, MKE and several others. This will make it very easy to stay current.
> 
> Similar problem to my own... What version did I now have on that machine? Did I do any updates since I last installed there? What software do I actually have? And where is it...?
> 
>>      Thanks for this and also thanks for the latest version of your TCP/IP system.
> 
> Happy to provide it. And it looks like it has already seen some action, based on the ftp logs at MIM... :-)
> 
>     Johnny
> 

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