[2024] in Release_7.7_team
release team minutes, 1/5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Jan 5 15:20:38 2000
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:20:27 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200001052020.PAA276193@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: othomas, ajfox, danw, rbasch, jweiss, ghudson, aurora, wdc
| miki
1. Shared libraries
ghudson: Last time we discussed this, Thomas claimed you could put
runtime paths into shared libraries such that they'd end up in the
programs linked against them. That doesn't seem to be true.
Also, there are problems with krb5 libraries wanting to link
against shared versions of com_err and ss if you build with shared
libraries.
2. 8.3.24
update changes from jweiss
Irix NFS + cosmoplayer patches
Solaris TCP patch
ftpd -C
detach fixes
LPRng
secret patch
fix the previous syncconf and sadmind kludges
... ?
everyone should make sure their patches are on this list.
to the dev cell soon, to athena the 17th.
mail should be sent about this release's panic potential on Suns
(because of the tcp bug).
3. PWOG
aurora: Miki asked to have local user stuff documented in the PWOG.
The PWOG sources have comments saying that local user stuff
shouldn't be documented because:
- sysadmins that don't know what they're doing will create
accounts for users who don't know what they're doing and have
never seen the MITnet Rules of Use.
- encouraging use of MIT resources by non-MIT people
- could become a support sinkhole
- if it's not officially supported, it shouldn't be documented
miki: People can already do this on non-Athena machines. We should
support doing it on Athena machines.
jweiss: There's a difference between "support" and "allow".
Some discussion... one of the major reasons some people want this
is to have a uid to install a piece of software with. We agree that
this is a very different problem from wanting to create local
accounts for non-MIT users.
wdc: I think keeping the information secret is wrong. We should
just explain what we support and what we don't, and what is
expected about local users. Anyway, we should punt this to owls.
ghudson: And maybe ask a net-security person to come, to discuss
their perspective on it.
Bill will deal.
4. Irix 6.5.4 vs 300MHz O2 problem
Bill rambles and then Greg realizes we're talking about going to
Irix 6.5.4 in a patch release and vetoes it.
5. Status
Linux - still no cluster product
Desktop - meeting today
PWS - we officially exist now
6. Bill says we should have an Athena word processor discovery project
sort of thing, and we all agree it would be nice, although
apparently Applix doesn't suck nearly as much as it used to.
