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Athena 9.0.19/20 patch release Nov 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 4 08:42:17 2001
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 08:42:05 -0500
Message-Id: <200111041342.IAA03198@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-announce@mit.edu
This is a reminder that the Athena 9.0.19 patch release (9.0.20 for
Solaris) is currently scheduled for tomorrow evening, Monday November
5. Changes in this patch release include:
* New athinfo queries "packages" and "patches" will display what
packages and patches are installed on a machine, for easier remote
problem diagnosis.
* Machines which have experienced an interrupted update will still
reactivate.
* There are now sawfish key bindings for Alt-ESC and Alt-Space by
default, with behavior similar to MS Windows (cycle windows
backwards and open the window menu).
* The tetex thumbpdf script has been fixed for perl 5.6.0.
* Linux machines with PUBLIC=true set are a little more careful
about updating their shadow/passwd/group files from AFS.
* Linux machines with PUBLIC=true set will allow user mounting of
CD-ROMs.
* Linux machines without cluster information will now use the
public-linux cluster information instead of the control-current
symlink.
* On Linux, the SysVinit, arts, diffutils, filesystem, initscripts,
kernel, kernel-headers, man, mkinitrd, quota, wireless-tools, cpp,
e2fsprogs, gcc, gcc-c++, gcc-g77, gcc-java, gcc-objc, glibc,
glibc-common, glibc-devel, glibc-profile, libstdc++,
libstdc++-devel, tmpwatch, util-linux, and xinetd RPMs were
updated to keep current with Red Hat 7.1.
* On Solaris, the SUNWski package is installed to provide a
/dev/random (of somewhat unknown quality).
* On Solaris, the libglade config scripts (used by programs which
compile against libglade) have been fixed.
If you have a machine set AUTOUPDATE=false, you can update it manually
after the release goes out by doing a console login as root and
running "update_ws".
Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu.
