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Re: [release-announce] Debathena Natty public release scheduled for 8/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Sat Aug 6 11:52:38 2011
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From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:52:29 -0400
Congratulations on this year's release. It's nice to see there are
still people making it happen.
-Bill
On Aug 6, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> The Debathena Natty public release is currently scheduled for the
> night of Monday, August 8. Workstations running the "debathena-
> cluster" metapackage will automatically upgrade to natty. If the
> upgrade fails for some reason (for example, a user has left
> themselves logged in to the workstation), it will retry each evening
> until it succeeds. If you're unsure which metapackage a given
> workstation is running, you can query it using athinfo ("athinfo
> <hostname> version") or log in to the workstation and run "machtype -
> L".
>
> The Athena dialup servers will not be upgraded on the evening of
> 8/8, but will be upgraded later this summer. A separate
> announcement will be sent for that upgrade.
>
> Release notes can be found in Hermes, at <http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/AgBqAg
> >. The release notes also contain upgrade information for private
> workstation owners, as private workstations running the "debathena-
> workstation" metapackage will not be automatically upgraded.
>
> As with all Athena releases, a downgrade is not possible without
> wiping and re-installing the workstation, so users who rely on
> Athena for their daily work and/or use software not maintained/
> installed by IS&T (including software installed in course lockers)
> are strongly encouraged to test all software and courseware on one
> of the cluster workstations to ensure compatibility.
>
> Finally, the Release Team would like to acknowledge the efforts of
> several students involved in this summer's release effort: Elizabeth
> Denys ('11), Benjamin Kaduk (G) and Geoffrey Thomas (G).
>
> Cordially,
>
> Jonathan Reed
> for the Athena Release Team
>
> --
> Jonathan Reed
> Information Services & Technology
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> jdreed@mit.edu
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