[2686] in Release_7.7_team
tcpdump and nfs-utils
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Apr 11 19:02:15 2001
Message-ID: <YupC9jxz0001BiENI9@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:02:07 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
I was going through old email and came across Angie Kelic's request that
tcpdump and nfs-utils get put in the Athena release.
I don't remember there being a discussion about this.
Is there compelling reason why we don't want to add tcpdump?
It sounds like it would be really helpful. (Or have we decided to do
this, and I missed it.)
With regards to NFS, Bob Mahoney visited me recently and asked why,
when a user puts NFS into their Linux Athena system, NFS packages don't
get updated. I pointed out that we did that because we were concerned
users needed
bug-compatibility and didn't want us mucking with the versions they chose
to install.
Bob pointed out that his team has had a couple nasty situations kicking
off from
people breaking in via old NFS packages that would have been avoided if
the most recent NFS RPM's had been installed. (He said he was gonna
write this up, and email Release Team, but I'm thinking about it now, so
I'll mention it now.)
The obvious solutions to Bob's problem seem to be:
Put NFS rpms into Athena Linux as Angie asked in March.
Add the ability to opt out of package updates, but recode the Athena
update to update all packages it sees, rather than just the packages it
knows it installed.
-wdc
