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Re: Athena 9.2 early release in one week
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Jun 9 19:15:10 2003
Message-Id: <200306092315.TAA19592@athenaphobia.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2003 17:39:44 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 19:15:08 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
For Solaris, once early goes out, I thought it was preferred for them to
use athena-sun4sys-92, and until early goes out, I believe updating using
the instructions below will leave you with a machine that doesn't attach packs
if it doesn't have dev cell cluster info.
For Irix... there is no 9.2!
Mitch
> The Athena 9.2 early release is currently scheduled for the evening of
> next Monday, June 16. At that time, machines in the alpha, beta, and
> early clusters will auto-update to the 9.2 release if they are set
> AUTOUPDATE=true.
>
> We try not to have data-destroying or severely inconveniencing bugs
> during the early testing period, but there may be some glitches.
>
> To manually update an AUTOUPDATE=false machine to the 9.2 release, do
> a console login (^P at the xlogin prompt) as root and run:
>
> SOLARIS:
> detach -a
> attach -O dev-sun4sys-92
> update_ws
>
> IRIX:
> detach -a
> attach -O dev-sgisys-92
> update_ws
>
> LINUX:
> update_ws 9.2
>
> System release notes are in
> /afs/dev.mit.edu/project/relnotes/rel92.html. User release notes
> should become available through "help" some time during the early
> release period.
>
> Please report any problems you see using the "sendbug" command. If
> you have any questions or comments, please send them to
> release-team@mit.edu.
