[3422] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2002-07-31 release team
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 31 14:14:41 2002
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:14:38 -0400
Message-Id: <200207311814.OAA14527@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Attending: miki aurora ghudson amb jweiss rbasch zacheiss warlord
1. Solaris RPM plan
We will release Athena 9.2 for Solaris as RPMs and install all of it
local on machines without separate /usr and /var partitions.
We will still have a srvd for the sake of machines with separate /usr
and /var partitions, since they won't have room to install the RPMs.
We'll continue to use track on those machines.
We will continue to have an rvd because we need it for /os; the RPMs
will live under /install.
It sounds like pkgadd/patchadd might get faster in Solaris, some day
(the Solaris 9 pkgadd might be faster, possibly), at which point we
could maybe install all of Solaris local as well.
2. Release notes
They are available via help, as of the next volume release. They will
be updated over the next month.
3. Linux installer
We will stop supporting the etherboot floppy at some point, though we
will (at least for a while) continue to reset the EEPROM settings if
people boot off of it.
We are close to having a 9.1 installer.
4. Next patch release
Will include AFS fakestat support, 200MB more local stuff on Solaris
(mostly for Evolution), and a few groundwork features for disconnected
operation.
It should go to the dev cell around the 5th, and to the Athena cell on
the 19th.
5. Status report
We did our status report; it will show up here in future mail.
