[3745] in testers
Re: New behaviour of 'add'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (who is my neighbor?)
Fri Jul 10 09:54:22 1998
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:31:25 -0400
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
From: who is my neighbor? <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199807101255.IAA14923@mozart.mit.edu>
My understanding is that this means the locker foo did not have
an entry in the arch directory that was the exact match for
the current release. The software attempts to use a reasonable
fall back in this case; i.e., the last release version etc.
The message is a warning to users and to the locker owner
that we are trying to help, but you may have problems. If
the out of date version that we fall back to does not work
with the new release, knowing that you are using compatibility
may help.
I'd advise that when you see the compatibility message, you
send the locker owner a reminder to fix up the locker.
These messages should disappear as the locker owners correct
their setups.
Mike
At 08:55 AM 7/10/98 -0400, Naomi B. Schmidt wrote:
:)
:)What does it mean when I now get the message "using compatibility
:)for /mit/foo" in response to my "add foo"? Is this something I
:)should be concerned about? If not, can we suppress it so as not
:)to confuse users?
:)
:) Naomi
:)
