[586] in Release_7.7_team
Meeting Notes 6/6 and 6/13
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Mon Jun 17 23:52:32 1996
From: "Mike Barker" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:52:28 EDT
6/6:
1. Solaris 2.4
a. We reviewed the testers list briefly. No major holdups.
b. Miki asked that we consider the approach to patches for
solaris. Her recommendation is
- original vendor + recommended, security, and third-party
needed patches only be used to build pack
- during testing and release, serious problems only be
added
- installpatch is slow, and does not correctly apply
hardlinks. Sun has fixed the earlier tailoring to
individual patches.
- discussion of use of a library and packageadd
- matter taken offline for detailed design
c. AUTOUPDATE
- added testing flag. Documented in getcluster manpage
- basically will provide correct handling of major OS
version changes, once they put new handling out. So,
there will be one "patch release" of 7.7 needed before
doing 8.0 release.
- see Greg's notes for more details
d. Early date: sun only planned to go out night of 17
e. Early documents: Kevin will have documents and posters
f. AFS 2.4 3.4a applications need testing!
2. IRIX 5.3
a. Configuration is 150PC, 1 gig, 64 Megabyte memory, XGE24
b. Mark has tracked down the missing help files, and they
were deliberately removed by SGI
6/13
Attending: miki, bruce, dot, mark, craig, me, carla, kevin
1. Sol2.4
a. Early still planned for 18th
problems with sparc4, audio, floppy drive
b. To support early, miki will convert one installer to 2.4
before the 18th. She will then convert both install
machines to 2.4 at the last step before going to field on
July 9. She will talk to Matt about when to upgrade the
install systems to 2.4.
c. Release Notes and Posters from Documentation! See
http://web.mit.edu/olh/Release/R8.0/
for some of it
2. IRIX 5.3
a. helpfiles okay!
b. we've had a request for some material from the desktop
special edition. For now, we're recommending that
material be kept in a locker.
c. xdsc isn't working.
d. libraries locker (wdc, tom owens) needs some work
e. target dates:
July 2 - beta
July 16 - early
July 30 - Field
3. Mike is going to be at ITLT or traveling. So, Dot will take
over for June 20 and 27, we'll all skip July 4 (go see
fireworks!), and Carla will run things on July 11.
