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Re: Can we add debathena-thirdparty as a dependency of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Apr 14 02:08:13 2009
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:07:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Tomorrow, after the existing debathena-cluster in -proposed gets released, I
> intend to upload a version that has debathena-thirdparty as a dependency, and
> move that to production by the end of the week. This means that all the
> cluster Debathena machines will install debathena-thirdparty and its
> dependencies when they take that update. I don't believe there were objections
> to this when I raised it a few weeks back, other than that we should make sure
> that mit-scheme eventually gets to clusters. If any others have developed,
> please let me know soon.
I'd add that this deserves careful testing, probably with clean systems
(good thing XVM exists), since it'd be pretty ugly if -thirdparty caused a
lot of trouble by failing to install successfully.
-Tim Abbott
