[6127] in Release_7.7_team
Athena Third party extra Ubuntu package list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Dec 15 20:42:33 2008
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:36:48 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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OK, I've completed this:
>I've been thinking about setting up the Third Party package list as per
>release-team discussion. Here's what I've come up with:
>Divide these up into top-level What Runs Where categories:
>information
>accessories
>communication
>text
>graphics
>audio
>numerical
>languages
>libraries
>simulation
>utilities
I did it with 4 comma-separated fields:
<category>, <overall software name>, <Ubuntu package name>, <comment>
with one Ubuntu package per line. All <overall software name> entries
are consecutive, for the same value of this entry. Very few entries
have comments. The main list is in file:
/mit/alexp/athena10/thirdpartysw
There is a very short second list (just 2 entries) with packages that require
user input (one to accept a license, the other to pick the cdrom device) in
file:
/mit/alexp/athena10/thirdpartysw-int
I tried to carefully check for typos but some might have slipped through.
It got somewhat bigger than the list I originally ran by wdc and jdreed; I hope
not unreasonably so. I left off about 5-6 applications that are available as
Ubuntu packages but which I think I should continue to maintain in lockers
for several reasons- typically, because the application requires additional
local configuration or add-ons, or because the Ubuntu package is too outdated
vs. what users want. Off the top of my head:
mono (and related stuff)
r
texmacs
netbeans
drscheme
electric
though some pieces of these may be pulled in as dependencies.
I decided to punt some complicated things like extra Window managers that users
can install on their own. I may be asked to install lockers for some things
if users feel the version in the release is too old- I'm thinking mostly of
eclipse here (it also has several add-ons our users want which are not in the
version currently in the release).
One "one-of" case that came to mind is realplay. It's not in the
Ubuntu repositories but is easy to get from the vendor (they have a
.deb option now). I think we should install it, users will want it.
Please let me know if this isn't OK- if I don't hear from anyone, I'll assume
I don't need to do anything else. I'm assuming these will possibly be renamed
and moved to some canonical place. I'd propose continuing to maintain them
there under RCS, if that's OK with people (or if it has to be changed, let me
know the details).
Alex
