[1679] in Release_7.7_team
notes, 2/23
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Feb 24 10:48:19 1999
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:44:51 -0500
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Attending: Greg Hudson, Jonathon Weiss, Abby Fox, Oliver Thomas, Mike
Barker, Heather Anne, Dan Winship, Bill Cattey, Bob Basch, Miki Lusztig
1. 8.3 Changes
larvnet (snmp) -- has been in place for sometime, works well
nmh -- done
emacs -- newer version
sendmail 8.9.3, no relay setting
liblocker -- under review
y2k testing -- in progress
xlockmore (screen saver) -- in progress; probably the most visible change
for users
lprng -- in progress
krb5 -- in progress; expected version at 1.1, will be at 1.06
moving cruft from Athena/bin to third -- transformed; most cruft discarded
solaris miniroot update -- transformed; no AFS means no solaris 2.7
tetex -- transformed; will be moving to latex2e as default
mentioned as possibilities, now not expected in 8.3
new-synctree
eliminate imake -- partially done
configuration file changes
setuid auditing -- partially done
libacl rewrite
sh/bash support -- default dot files, think through course lockers and other
scripts
positive login security
OSs
Solaris 2.6 -- we can't upgrade without AFS
Irix 6.5 -- one potential difficulty is that 6.5 has a change in the default
library format. This will not affect existing binaries. However, when
recompiling, it will be necessary to rebuild libraries for proper linking.
2. Software license wrapper -- we are investigating. It appears that the
problem is more complex than simply not running, the processes appear to be
running.
3. Large binaries in classes. We are considering alternatives. One
suggestion is to have the TA run a script which copies the programs to local
disk. The drawback would be that when the system is a reinstalled, the
local copy would be lost. Our thought was that we should not ask Brian
Murphy to deal with this, but depend on the student running the normal
across-the-net copy when they don't have a local copy, and have the TA then
copy the program to local disk again. We are still thinking about possible
ways to help.
4. Bill Cattey has developed sample code for dealing with 24 bit visuals.
