[4027] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Plan for moving tetex to a locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Sep 21 21:57:42 2003
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:57:40 -0400
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> * Lockers would allow us to more easily delegate maintenance to tex
> experts who aren't members of our team, like we've done in the
> past with the gnu locker. I don't think there is currently anyone
> we'd want to delegate control to, but in the past there have been
> people like amu who were both more motivated and more able to
> maintain a tex installation than we were. That situation might
> arise again in the future.
*wave* For the record, micromanaging TeX installations is a pain, and
probably unnecessary given a recent version of a distribution as
extensive as teTeX; on the other hand, the extra flexibility doesn't
particularly hurt, especially given today's support for local caches
of entire lockers.
I should also note that it wasn't entirely a solo effort; I did have
some help from the other folks on bug-newtex.
> I have prepared a tetex-2.0.4 locker as a proof of concept. I'm
> guessing it should move to the athena cell before this plan goes live,
> but that can be done with a volume dump since there are no AFS path
> references in the locker.
FWIW, newtex was configured with the AFS path as a fallback for when
the locker was detached.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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