How to un-Caldera my box

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> I still run Caldera LTP (the precursor to 3.1) and am realatively
> annoyed by this recent SCO lawsuit stupidity.  I don't have a lot of
> time to fuss around with a dozen different distros, my current
> installation is pretty heavily hacked to run like I want, and I compile
> virtually everything from source or sometimes a SuSE rpm.  So I'd like
> to un-Caldera my Caldera distro, just on general prinicples, so that it
> doesn't have Caldera/SCO content (without going through all the work of
> building Linux From Scratch).
> So my basic question is two parts:
> a)  what makes my distro a Caldera distro (other than boot scripts)?

This is rather hard to quantify, as its not specifically certain packages,
but how some are built or setup.  There is the obvious /etc/issue which
you could/should change to expunge the Caldera name, but beylond that
you're getting yourself into some rather difficult territory, because just
about everything that you're running that originated from a Caldera RPM is
what makes your installation a Caldera distro.  They don't neccesarily
take the contents of a tarball and make it into an RPM, inchanged.

> b)  after that, what parts of my linux box make it a target of this
> stupid SCO lawsuit, or does anybody know this yet at this point?
> It seems that SCO has realized their own linux distro is a target of
> their own lawsuit and they have dropped it from their product
> offerings.

right now, its impossoible to say.  SCO is claiming that they'll release
this information to selected 3rd parties within a few weeks time.
Personally, i'm not touching anything on any of my boxes until there is
some legal basis for doing so.  Right now, its still SCO vs. IBM.

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