[1458] in athena10
Re: Sysnames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Mon Mar 9 22:59:26 2009
Message-Id: <200903100257.n2A2va0s029684@byte-me.mit.edu>
To: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>, debathena@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:50:45 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:57:36 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
Aside from 3partysw and cfyi, you probably also want to send this
notice to the mailing list for specifically this kind of thing. That
is, *drumroll* locker-maintainers@mit.edu. 8-)
Mitch
