[1449] in athena10
Re: Sysnames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Mar 9 17:51:38 2009
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:50:45 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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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.
Sure - that seems reasonable. There are a lot of lockers that have been
deprecated by the local software we install; we may want to discourage
some locker maintainers from updating their lockers for Debathena,
depending on the specific software.
- Evan
