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[DRAFT 2] [debathena-announce] Metapackage renaming

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Sat Mar 14 20:17:53 2009

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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:16:51 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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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, redirection
of some syslog entries to the Athena-wide syslog server, and
metapackages which include the standard set of software installed
locally on cluster machines (the debathena-extra-software metapackage).

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



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