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Re: Sun OpenGL, patches for Open Office
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 15 14:40:04 2001
Message-Id: <200108151840.OAA03672@equal-rites.mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, ajfox@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:42:29 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:40:01 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi, Alex. Miki is on vacation right now, so we only talked briefly
about this issue at release team. Basically, we want to figure out
what patches are required, how much impact they could have on the
release, and then decide whether it's reasonable to apply them just
before fall term starts.
Looking at the OpenGL required patches list, I think the only patches
we need to apply are 108604, 108605, and 108606, the driver upgrades
for Elite3D, Creator3D, and PGX. (Maybe not the PGX patch, since I'm
not sure we have any PGX machines.) Those should have relatively low
impact on the release.
As for OpenGL 1.2 itself, miki will have to look into that to figure
out exactly how to install it. Sun's shar file is convenient for the
administrator of a single machine, but our release process can't take
advantage of it; we deal in terms of Sun packages (preferrably from
the Solaris 8 CD) and patches.
> 2, In attempting to install the latest OpenOffice build on Suns, the
> installer halts and won't proceed until a couple of required C++
> patches are installed- these are 108434-01 and 108435-01, neither of
> which we appear to have. Could these also be installed?
I don't think this will be a problem, since C++ doesn't tend to impact
core release functions.
