[7004] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Maverick support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Oct 12 14:18:00 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:17:50 -0400
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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Doing a test install on Maverick today (using the installer from r24891), I selected "workstation", but was prompted (by debconf) for the default Kerberos realm. I'm not sure why I saw this prompt, but I don't think I should have.
-Jon
On Oct 11, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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.)
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> We've seen three issues so far:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Geoffrey Thomas
> geofft@mit.edu
