[1431] in athena10
Re: Sysnames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Mar 9 14:41:46 2009
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:40:21 -0400
> I think we should punt amd64_deb31, i386_deb31, i386_rhel3, i386_rh9,
> i386_linux24, i386_linux22, i386_linux3, i386_linux2, and i386_linux1
> from the sysname list and add sysnames for Ubuntu platforms.
Agreed. Athena 9.3 (i386_rhel3) became obsolete nearly 4 years ago,
and users who haven't maintained their lockers in that long probably
shouldn't expect their software to work on Debathena.
However, there's a lot of cruft out there, and I'd kind of like to
give locker maintainers a heads-up before we do this, so that they can
deal if necessary. It's probably trivial to go through the
whichlocker database and look for lockers which don't have arch/
i386_rhel4 and compile a list. Finding the maintainers may be hard,
but we should at least send mail to 3partysw and cfyi before we
implement this.
-Jon
