[529] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Sep 22 12:09:51 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 16:27 -0400, William Cattey wrote:
> Instead, part way through the Athena install I get notified there are updates.
Ah, this. This is a little tricky to explain.
We have modifications to certain system packages like bash. The install
script has several steps, which boil roughly down to:
1. Add apt repository to sources.list
2. Install a metapackage.
Between step 1 and step 2, the Ubuntu update manager notices that
sources.list has changed and notices the Debathena updates to bash,
tcsh, and so forth. Despite appearances, these are not Ubuntu native
updates.
This is a usability wart, and aside from documenting it, I'm not sure
what we can do about it.
> apt-file update needed
apt-file is poorly packaged, in my opinion.
Fortunately, it isn't installed on most systems. You got it because you
answered yes to the debathena-debian-dev package question during the
install.
