[1333] in athena10
Re: Metapackage rename
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Fri Mar 6 18:31:25 2009
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:25:41 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Greg Price wrote:
> The reuse of "debathena-workstation" means some complication, of
> course: if we want to assume that someone out there (a) has installed
> -workstation, and (b) really did want the -login-graphical
> functionality rather than the traditional Athena Private Workstation
> functionality that will become -workstation, then we need to do a
> Conflicts/Replaces dance that I believe requires leaving up a
> transitional set of package builds for as long as we want upgrades to
> lead to -login-graphical rather than to the new -workstation.
Yes, that's correct; I didn't bother going into the details but the
process is fairly straightforward anyway, even though it requires user
intervention.
- Evan
