[36] in Kakapo Windows Team
win.mit.edu installers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas L. Thornton)
Sat Jul 19 22:35:41 2003
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:35:39 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200307200235.h6K2Zddn003996@the-rim.mit.edu>
From: "Thomas L. Thornton" <tomt@MIT.EDU>
To: contact-container-admins@MIT.EDU, kakapo@MIT.EDU
Container Admins and Kakapo,
For those of you unfamiliar with the latter addressee, it is a new
forum to discuss and coordinate Windows efforts around the Campus.
For more detail see its discuss group, particularly the first minutes
at http://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/kakapo/16 .
This note reports the latest state of the win.mit.edu installers,
Pismere.msi v 0.2.13 and OpenAFS.msi v 1.3.2.301.
Since Thursday night we have seen successful OpenAFS installs via
Group Policy to various OS versions in a number of containers both
inside IS and in test DLCs. Over the weekend testing continues, and
we plan to announce to you when a GP-deployable pair of installers is
available. We recommend against hand-installs of this test, since
that might endanger the subsequent GP-based auto deployment. On W2K,
once the new OpenAFS.msi installs, we see no adverse behavior from
SP4.
A minor problem with the Pismere.msi exists, so early next week
developers plan to roll back a couple binary modules of it. Remember
it is now separate from the AFS installer so we may deploy a minor
upgrade release.
Note that Paul and I are out Monday-Thursday next week but intend to
remain in close contact. The Friday Container Admins will take place
as scheduled Friday, 11:00 in E19-750. Expect detailed results of our
work then.
-Tom
