[2074] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes for 2000-02-02 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Feb 3 10:14:02 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 03 Feb 2000 10:13:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:45:12 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hu2jqiaj5.fsf@opus.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> * Thomas's update model is a little too simplified, because it
> only gives workstations access to the most recent version of
> the package lists.
> - We sometimes like to run scripts during an update.
> (This interferes with backing out patch releases,
> but I don't know if we can avoid it.)
We do this by putting the scripts in the appropriate athena-ws
package.
> - When we want to remove a package, we want that to
> happen just once (when the patch release is taken).
Instead of again and again? I suppose that might be right, though I
suspect over-cleverness here is likely to be complicated beyond
necessity...
Thomas
