[6996] in Release_7.7_team
Maverick support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Oct 11 23:20:04 2010
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:19:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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I intend to move Maverick's packages to production tomorrow morning,
enable maverick support in the installer shell script, and send mail to
this effect to debathena-announce and release-announce, assuming I receive
no reports of issues between now and when I wake up. Liz, Ben, and I have
all installed Debathena on Maverick and things seem fine.)
We've seen three issues so far:
0) Maverick doesn't come with aptitude to save space on the CD. I added an
"apt-get install aptitude" in a conditional to the installer. apt-get's
resolver seems capable of installing Debathena now, but I don't really
think it's worth switching.
1) There's an upstream bug in Maverick's libc apparently tickled by the
combination of nss_nonlocal being used and disabled by
$NSS_NONLOCAL_IGNORE that can cause cvs's postinst to crash when creating
/srv/cvs. The package manager reattempts the postinst and the installation
completes fine, but /srv/cvs is not properly created. Since I'm not really
aware of people using /srv/cvs as opposed to a real repo somewhere else,
and also since we can't fix this on our end, I'm not considering this a
blocker. The bug was fixed upstream shortly after the release that Ubuntu
took for Maverick, and Anders has filed an Ubuntu bug at
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658907
Because cvs has not been updated in Ubuntu since Jaunty, this only affects
new installs.
2) Upstream from now uses the "alternatives" system, so our
diversion of /usr/bin/from to install the one from mitmailutils may not
take effect. This only affects upgrades because with new installs, we
successfully divert the symlink to /etc/alternatives/from. On upgrades,
that symlink beats our symlink to from.debathena. I've filed a ticket at
http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/729 but the lack of "from" doesn't
particularly feel like a release blocker to me.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
