[5345] in Release_7.7_team
Re: upgrading dialups to 9.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Sep 29 23:07:53 2005
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To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:07:40 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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>> When will the dialups be updated to Athena 9.4?
When the dialup port is done. I'm working on it now, but we didn't have
Solaris 10 source until a week ago, and that's a requirement for
upgrading the dialups.
>> Can we try to move up the time that dialups are running the current
>> Athena release to shortly after the release date?
As per the above, what we can and can't do isn't necessarily something
we have a lot of control over. I usually try to have test.dialup
running the new release by beta and the rest of the dialups upgraded
within a month of the release coming out, but lacking what's required
makes that hard.
>> I've been dealing with a multitude of complaints that various things
>> don't run on the dialups. I've stopped supporting Athena 9.3 some
>> time ago and a fair number of things I compile from source (and some
>> commercial apps) won't run on the older OS releases.
YMMV, but ditching support for the previous release is usually something
I do more like 6 months after a new release comes out, although it
varies on a case to case basis.
Garry
