[343] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 branding and gdm-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 29 12:25:56 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:05 -0400, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> For the cluster configuration in particular, how about just adding any
> additional neceesary hacks as diverted files in debathena-cluster
> package? The usual arguments for keeping them separately packaged
> wouldn't seem to apply.
We're already diverting gdm.conf in debathena-gdm-config in order to
change the graphical theme and to set UserAuthDir to /tmp. We can't
divert the same file in two different packages.
tabbott wrote:
> I suspect you'll also want to replace the SIPB fuzzball logo with an IS&T
> one (but perhaps not the owl with the Debian swirl on it).
Maybe. There's an argument for leaving the fuzzball in to emphasize the
collaborative nature of the project yadda yadda happiness and puppies,
at least for the fall preview release.
> I wonder whether we could have use a script that checked which you had in
> your sources.list and computed the name and logo to use appropriately, to
> avoid having to split the package at all.
Making gdm.conf and/or the theme variable at runtime would nicely solve
both problems, but I haven't thought of an easy way to do it.
