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Re: [DRAFT 3] [debathena-announce] Metapackage renaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Wed Mar 25 01:29:22 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:28:23 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
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Cool.
I would add at the end of the last paragraph something like "If you
want your debathena-workstation machine to take up the new behavior,
no action is required." Otherwise with the last line it sounds like
"you must do something" rather than "if you want X rather than Y, you
must do something".
> * The metapackage which includes the standard set of software installed
> locally on cluster machines (the debathena-extra-software package)
This could be "The standard set of upstream software installed locally
on cluster machines", where 'upstream' could be 'third-party' or
'extra' or 'external'. "The standard set of software" sounds like it
might mean the Athena stuff -- and of course they have that already.
Greg
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:20:17PM -0500, 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 machines, matching the traditional category of a
> private Athena workstation.
>
> This will include, among other features:
> * Automatically installed updates
> * A local caching nameserver
> * Support for Hesiod cluster information
> * Configuring NTP or Chrony to use the MIT time server
> * The /tmp cleaner
> * Redirection of some syslog entries to the Athena-wide syslog server
> * The metapackage which includes the standard set of software installed
> locally on cluster machines (the debathena-extra-software package)
>
> 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
>
