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Re: DRAFT release announcement; please review before 4pm today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Aug 24 16:09:57 2010
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:09:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: release-team@mit.edu
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> The Debathena Lucid public release is currently scheduled for the evening of
> Thursday August 26. As this release is the first automatic release upgrade
> for Debathena workstations, please read the following information carefully.
>
> Only workstations with the "debathena-cluster" metapackage will automatically
> upgrade to lucid. If you're not sure which metapackage your workstation is
> running, you can use the "machtype -L" command to view this information.
Worth mentioning athinfo?
> As the upgrade process is designed for "debathena-cluster" machines, it
> *completely wipes the hard drive*. As a reminder, "debathena-cluster"
> machines should not have any local data storage or custom configurations.
> They should also not be installed in dual-boot configurations.
Worth mentioning how to get out of -cluster (even if that's just "e-mail
us"), or alternatively saying something indicating that if you have
-cluster, unless you did something really strange, you don't have local
data?
> Users of metapackages other than "debathena-cluster" should follow the normal
> Ubuntu upgrade process[1] if they wish to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid").
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jonathan Reed
> for the IS&T Athena Release Team
>
> References:
> [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
Rest of it looks good.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
