[622] in athena10
Re: locker software and 'debathena-cluster-software'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Sat Nov 22 01:54:38 2008
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:53:48 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
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I've committed and uploaded this change, as r23247. -cluster-software
is renamed to -extra-software, and a subset -extra-software-nox is
split out to contain the packages appropriate for non-graphical
machines like dialups (e.g. texlive-full but not openoffice.org.)
I think both packages should have substantially more software. Some
of the software that should be in -extra-software-nox is in
debathena-linerva-master (in
/mit/debathena/packages/meta/linerva-master/debathena-linerva-master.equivs;
it's a very long list), and some of the other software that should be
in -extra-software can probably be identified from the software
installed on mega-man, a Debathena workstation located in the SIPB
office which has seen heavy use for over a year.
Greg
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Greg Price wrote:
>
> >The infoagents locker grew an arch/i386_deb40 directory this week. I
> >noticed because my mail client threw an error when trying to show me
> >an HTML message, because I have /mit/infoagents/bin/lynx in my mailcap.
> >
> >Meanwhile it looks like 'lynx' was added to debathena-cluster-software
> >in 0.5.2, r23240, the next day.
> >
> >From discussions here, it looks like we'll be taking a lot of locker
> >software this way. For the reasons discussed I think that's right.
> >
> >
> >But Athena isn't just cluster machines, so we should be sure to keep
> >this functionality available on Athena outside clusters. We've been
> >calling the package 'debathena-cluster-software', but I think we
> >should think of it as a generic 'batteries included' package,
> >supplying all the ancillary software users expect on a fully-powered
> >Athena workstation.
> >
> >E.g., we should aim for this package now called
> >debathena-cluster-software
> >to be installed on dorm-owned workstations, SIPB office heads, etc.
> >
> >This suggests two things:
> >
> >- rename the package to reflect that intent; someone suggested
> > debathena-third-party, or a more apt name might be
> > debathena-extra-software;
> >
> >- for those of us who care about Debathena not on Hardy, we should
> > maintain debathena-cluster-software for other distributions;
> > e.g. on etch it conflicts with debathena-workstation just now
> > over the gaim->pidgin rename;
> >
> >- those of us who maintain Debathena workstations, say SIPB office
> > heads, should install debathena-cluster-software and try to get
> > all the general-purpose software we need into that package;
> >
> >How does this approach sound to everyone else?
>
> Sounds like a good plan to me.
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
>
