[1418] in Release_7.7_team
Re: patches for the elite card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Jul 31 22:26:24 1998
Resent-From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Resent-To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Michal N Lusztig <miki@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, release.team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199808010125.VAA15575@small-gods.mit.edu>
Excerpts from mail: 31-Jul-98 Re: patches for the elite c.. Greg
Hudson@MIT.EDU (1005)
> > For the patch 106022 to work --- we needed first to install Open
> > GL (pkg-es : SUNWgl* and SUNWffbgl )
> This isn't a minor thing, and I wish you had gotten back to me on it
> before just doing it. If I had just gone ahead and done the 8.2.9 patch
> release without checking, it would have added about 15MB to the /usr
> partition and destroyed a good chunk of the client machines out there.
> I'm going to have to restore the OS volume from a read-only.
My screwup.
I told Miki to go ahead and didn't check in with Release Team.
Worse, Miki told me tha she was needing more space to do it.
I should have thought more carefully about the impacts.
It was NOT Miki who screwed up. She did everything right, and left it
up to me to make sure all else was well. *I* screwed up.
Excerpts from mail: 31-Jul-98 Re: patches for the elite c.. Greg
Hudson@MIT.EDU (1005)
> Unfortunately, in fuzzballs [324], Naomi wrote:
> > Since one of the major reasons for going with the Ultra10's rather
> > than Ultra 5's for mass deployment to the clusters was to have the
> > ability to run OpenGL applications, I guess we really do need to
> > apply the patch releases that they recommend.
> I really had no idea of this requirement, and I don't know if I can deal
> with having it dumped on me right now without putting our environment
> seriously at risk.
Ok. Understood.
Let's take some time to think this through and approach it in a more
systematic way.
Wrong-headed things I had in my mind were:
1. I thought Open GL was part of the Solaris release.
2. When it was shown not to be in the release I thought it was not all
that big.
3. When it turned out to be big, I didn't think enlarging the packs
represented a major impact.
Greg; Again, I apologize for having let this get out of hand.
Thanks muchly for catching it!
Let's put it on the release team agenda.
If it's too big an impact, then we'll cope.
-wdc
