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Re: Please review: Presenting the Solaris Athena 9.3 recrafting.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Feb 11 23:05:51 2004
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Cc: release-team@mit.edu, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, mjv@mit.edu
From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:04:20 -0500
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Keeping the OS the same, but changing the packaging to move everything
local, may be an easier thing to test and get right than changing both
OS and packaging at the same time.
-wdc
On Feb 11, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Robert A Basch wrote:
> 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
>
