[2077] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Linux update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Thu Feb 3 11:04:54 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 03 Feb 2000 11:04:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:23:09 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hr9eui869.fsf@opus.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Things update scripts have done include converting old attachtabs to
> new ones, modifying variable definitions in rc.conf (like MACHINE),
> inaugurating files like /etc/athena/access, etc. We typically want to
> run them once, when the machine takes the update, and not after that.
Those are fine examples.
An attachtab conversions should be done in the athena-locker package,
which is responsible for keeping the locker configuration sane.
Whether one needs a new format attachtab is exactly when one is using
the new athena-locker package.
/etc/athena/access needs to be inaugurated exactly when the package
which requires it gets installed, that is, by that package itself.
And so forth.
