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Re: Please review: Presenting the Solaris Athena 9.3 recrafting.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Feb 11 20:22:22 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, mjv@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:22:17 -0500
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 19:15, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I may have confused this issue by asserting that we would just make a
> copy of the Solaris OS stuff we have for 9.2.
I thought the plan was just to wait until we actually update the OS
(to Solaris 10?) to install everything locally.
> For the record, I think installing the entire OS locally is a fine idea
> (if only so that we could stop hacking up Sun patches to deal with the
> symlink packages), if we have the resources to make that switch.
I gathered from talking to Miki that it may be a lot of work to
do such a reinstall; maybe we should see how the other Sun work
looks before deciding about this... :)
Bob
