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Re: Migrating zulu to Ubuntu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Mar 22 13:42:08 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:42:01 -0400
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> We have in the past needed to run a couple of packages (like debootstrap, for supporting newer distros as the NOTES file mentions, and schroot, for newer features) from Debian testing. I don't think we've needed that recently, though, and adding that repository to grab one or two packages out of it is as easy on Ubuntu as it is on (released) Debian.
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> I'm pretty sure the latest version of Ubuntu would be just fine. A slightly older version like an LTS would also work, but we may need to backport more packages than usual.
As an exercise, I will attempt to follow the NOTES file on a Lucid machine, and see what happens.
> That said, this would be losing the only Debian machine that I have access to
http://xvm.mit.edu
I'm also happy to set up a Debian Debathena machine in the test cluster, or something.
> but our Debian testing machine probably ought not also be our build server....
Uh, definitely not.
-Jon
