[374] in athena10
Re: Adding software "to the release"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Charles Arnold)
Tue Aug 5 00:33:22 2008
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:32:26 -0400
From: Kenneth Charles Arnold <kcarnold@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> Mostly network traffic and install time. If we pile 100GB of software
> into the release then it will take hours to install a machine. texlive
> is a huge offender here because it has a zillion font packages runs
> mktexlsr for every one, but tex is too important to lose.
>
The mktexlsr thing should really be a "trigger", like ldconfig.
Hopefully that's already in the works.
Any investigation into using IP multicast for cluster upgrades? It would
be a multiplicative bandwidth savings, if the hub can handle it. (I'm
not sure how that end works though.)
-Ken
