[574] in athena10
Re: Could an arch/i386_deb40/bin be created in the gnu locker for Athena 10.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Oct 16 12:12:50 2008
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:12:03 -0400
Cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, William D Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
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On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:01, Tim Abbott wrote:
> I'd prefer a solution such as the current README that encourages
> people to fix their scripts. I don't think there are actually very
> many of them (there are only two references to "gtar" from binaries
> in the whichlocker database, which are both ancient copies of
> automake).
Ah, I missed that they were both ancient. Perhaps we want to
encourage their removal in favor of locally installed versions, and
not even symlink gtar...
Ken
