[538] in athena10
Re: cluster-software install problem analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Sep 23 13:45:30 2008
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:29 -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
>> Is the intention that cluster machines will have debathena-build-depends
>> installed?
>
> Yes.
>
> So in this proposal, the debathena-build-depends dependency would move
> from workstation to cluster.
By cluster, do you mean cluster-software?
I agree -workstation is a weird place for -build-depends. I think it is
desirable that on any Athena workstation or dialup, one can build Athena
packages. Basically, I'm wondering whether dropping apt-file might be a
better solution.
-Tim Abbott
