[7003] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Maverick support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Oct 12 00:56:45 2010
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> I intend to move Maverick's packages to production tomorrow morning
>>
>> A ~12 hour window on a holiday weekend for comment on a new release feels
>> kind of short.
>>
>>> 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.)
>>
>> 3 data points really doesn't feel like a good enough test of a brand new
>> distro to me. I haven't even tested it yet. Also, which metapackages did
>> you install? Did testing consist merely of installation, or anything else?
>
> The machine that I was using for testing (lola-granola a.k.a. sarah-palin) is
> login-graphical.
Wait, sarah-palin is a different machine -- Liz's old laptop, which we
recently couldn't log in on but that's because it wouldn't do wireless
networking right.
> Only installation was tested right away, but quentin and
> lizdenys attempted to log in to it locally today which failed. There was no
> error message displayed -- could this be a 'from' issue?
I'm able to log in remotely to my Athena account after adding myself to
/etc/security/access.conf... Regardless, sure, I'll hold off until we
figure out what's up.
> I was too busy to look more carefully tonight (as I have early rehearsal
> tomorrow morning).
>
> -Ben
>
