[2744] in Release_7.7_team
NEW agenda item: Update to Solaris?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed May 16 10:29:17 2001
Message-ID: <gv0cuqdz00015qV314@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:29:10 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
I have cleared all the bureaucratic obstacles preventing Sun from
getting us sources that match the binaries we deploy. But the guy who
cuts the source disk threw me this curve: He's trying to convince us to
take, not Update 2 (Solaris 8 11/00) but the recently released Update 4.
Issue: We want source in sync with what we deploy, so it seems we'd
have to upgrade Athena 9.0 to Update 4.
Possible benefits:
1. More bug fixes.
2. Patches we've installed that are later than Update 2 won't require
special requests for source.
Possible risks:
1. Update 4 might have broken something we care about.
2. Workload.
Since Miki is the person primarily responsible for doing this stuff, I
asked her what she thought we should do. She said we should discuss it
at Release Team.
-wdc
