[146] in athena10
Mananging an Athena 10 cluster software set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 1 13:57:34 2008
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:55:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <200804011755.m31Htif9024960@outgoing.mit.edu>
To: athena10@mit.edu
The Athena 10 technical plan contains a number of plans like "ensure
the native x3270 package is installed". I also have some requests
from Alex Prengel for native software he'd like to see installed. I'd
like to create the infrastructure to complete those items so we can
knock them off quickly.
My plan was to create a new equivs metapackage named
debathena-cluster-software and make it depend on the Debian software
packages we want installed on all cluster machines. (This is distinct
from whatever metapackage will turn a machine into an Athena cluster
machine with all of the self-maintenance features.) I am somewhat
concerned about packages which don't exist in all suites; for
instance, the sun-java6 packages exist in etch-backports but not in
etch. This metapackage doesn't necessarily need to be installable on
anything but Hardy, but if there's an easy way to make it installable
everywhere (omitting software which doesn't exist for that suite), it
might be nice.
