[5140] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2005-06-08 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 8 15:50:12 2005
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:50:01 -0400
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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1. Sendmail delivery modes
Jonathon brought up his proposal to have sendmail deliver to outgoing
in the background. We will go ahead with this. An MUA can provide a
command-line option to sendmail to force a synchronous delivery
attempt.
2. Early release
Scheduled for this coming Monday, June 13. Greg will send
announcement mail today. We're not thrilled with how well AFS is
working, but it doesn't warrant not going forward with the release.
The Solaris install and KNFS support are not ready due to lack of
source code, but that has happened in the past and has been
survivable.
3. Solaris install methods
Bob has been looking into alternative Solaris net-boot methods for the
install, so that we stop having to go through the painful process of
getting source code from Sun each year (though that may go easier in
the future with Solaris going open source; we'll see).
Option #1 is inetboot using dhcp. There appear to be some serious
stumbling blocks:
* The prom does not use the user-provided address after making the
DHCP query, but expects the DHCP response to allocate an address.
We could perhaps hack the DHCP servers to fill in a response as if
they were allocating the client-provided address, but that would
be weird at best.
* Current proms have no way to specify an identifier for DHCP
requests, so we can't distinguish between a Sun which wants to be
installed with Athena from a Sun (Athena or not) which is simply
booting and acquiring an address via DHCP.
Option #2 is Wanboot, which uses HTTP. We'd be tftp-ing the Wanboot
image and specifying an option to make it prompt for network
parameters. Wanboot would then grab a root image (this is different
from the current install, which mounts the miniroot over NFS); since
the miniroot is about 180MB and takes a few minutes to transfer all at
once, we might need to create a microroot which mounts the miniroot
over NFS.
Wanboot requires us to run a CGI module on a web server, but overall
it appears to be a workable solution. Unfortunately, without source
mods it won't be quite as friendly to the installing user, since we
can't provide intelligent defaults like the current installer does.
4. Status report
(Sent separately.)
5. Miscellany
Expect a patch release tomorrow with some last-minute fixes for early.
Also expect gaim to be integrated into the release during the coming
month.
