[2013] in Release_7.7_team
release team minutes, 12/15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Dec 15 15:45:06 1999
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:44:55 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199912152044.PAA39160@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: ghudson, rbasch, ajfox, tb, danw, aurora | wdc, jweiss
1) Layered Linux release
currently all packages depend on the athena-base package, which
mostly just provides the Athena rc script.
Top 10 Things Dealt With by the Athena rc Script
10. "booting" syslog
9. /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}.local
8. delete /.deleted, /etc/sm/*, /etc/sm.bak/*
7. delete /var/athena/sessions/*
6. delete /var/tmp/!!!SuperLock!!!
5. Public WS cleanup/integrity
4. /etc/motd
3. no{create,remote,attach}
2. nologin.persist
1. /var/athena/core.root
8 can go. (/.deleted doesn't apply to layered release, sm stuff
is cruft.). 1 is really only for Solaris, and it can go too.
6 was for an Emacs bug which may not still exist. If needed it can
be moved to the athena-emacs package.
9, 7, 3 belong to libal, but it would be weird to install them with
it. Make a new package which the al-users can also depend on.
10, 5, 4, 2 are "Athena Workstation" issues. This can go into a
package called "athena-workstation", with the various bits
configurable by rc.conf
Some people want vanilla krb5 packages... but that's not part of
this project: we're producing packages from the Athena tree, not
all packages people might possibly want.
cron jobs: generic ones will also go into athena-workstation
package.
2) krb5 packages
Some people want vanilla krb5 packages, for many platforms.
We don't have build machines for non-Athena platforms. The
Kerberos team does. It would make more sense for them to do it...
3) Status reports
Desktop: We've had meetings. The first release to use the
new Athena Desktop will probably not use it by default. (Opt in.)
Linux: There are packages in testing. Thomas still expects to have
pilot public workstations at some point in IAP. Karl is working on
the installer, Thomas is working on the update.
Solaris install/update: Going well
Private Workstations: Miki finally talked with Greg Anderson. She's
writing up a charter which she'll give to Bill and Dan when she's
done.
