RH 7.90 beta 1 omits mt-st from a base install. This is a bad idea -- down-playing backup infrastructure. This is a change from all prior RH releases. It is a tiny package, and indexpensible in doing cronned unattended backups with tape unit status evaluation. There is no credible command line substitute. It breaks existing infrastructure. It is a no-maintenance package. Please consider restoring it
Assigning to correct component. I personally disagree with this request, a base install should be minimalistic and there are certainly other ways to do backup (my backups involve mostly tar and dvdrecord, for example).
Please ... May this get resolved before 7.3 feature freazes ? On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > I don't think this will be ready for 7.3 though, only a couple of days > left for adding features. As to Bero's Bugzilla comment here, see the cruft list at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59596 and tell me if you can keep a straight face in saying that keeping the the 63 k which mt-st represents out is important ... [root@cronos root]# rpm -q mt-st --qf '%{size}\n' 63191
re-added to base.