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Re: [DRAFT 5] [debathena-announce] Metapackage renaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Mar 28 13:39:05 2009
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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To be clear, they can run these commands right now and they will work, but
the behaviour won't change until the end of April?
I recommend CCing sipb-office on your email to debathena-announce.
I would change the subject to something like "Changes to
debathena-workstation", since I think that is more likely to attract the
attention of people who use it than "Metapackage renaming".
-Tim Abbott
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, 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 third-party
> 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+
>
> If you want your workstation to take up the new behavior, no action is
> required.
>
> 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 if you want to retain the current behavior.
>
> - Evan
> SIPB Debathena
>
>
>
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