[1442] in athena10
Re: Sysnames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Mon Mar 9 15:04:17 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:03:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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I think there are a fair number of lockers that still use i386_linux* as
their arch without having an i386_rhel*. We should probably look in every
locker in the whichlocker database and compile some statistics.
--Quentin
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> 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
