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Re: [DRAFT] [debathena-announce] Metapackage renaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sat Mar 14 20:04:01 2009
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:59:15 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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This would, of course, be preceded by uploading the new
debathena-workstation and -login-graphical, and updating the website to
refer to -login-graphical.
- Evan
Evan Broder wrote:
> Hi everybody -
> At the end of April, we will be refocusing the debathena-workstation
> meta-package to bring it more in line with the configuration of the
> Debathena cluster workstations currently in testing around campus.
>
> This will include, among other features, automatically installed
> updates, a local caching nameserver, support for Hesiod cluster
> information, NTP or Chrony clock syncing, the /tmp cleaner, and
> redirection of some syslog entries to the Athena-wide syslog server.
>
> The current debathena-workstation package is being renamed to
> debathena-login-graphical. If you want to keep the current behavior, you
> should uninstall the debathena-workstation package and be sure to mark
> debathena-login-graphical as manually installed. The following should do
> that:
>
> aptitude install debathena-workstation- debathena-login-graphical+
>
> We will be changing the dependencies of debathena-workstation sometime
> on or after April 30th, so be sure to adjust your package manager by then.
>
> - Evan
> SIPB Debathena
>
>
