[4371] in testers
Re: problems wiht updating to 8.4 on an ultra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 23 13:50:13 2000
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 May 2000 00:18:54 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:50:05 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I believe I have fixes either in submitted patches or in the 8.4.0 or
8.4.1 version scripts for #1-7.
I have no clue about #3a. Hopefully it's just a fluke.
> 8) the solaris supplied man pages don't include pre-formatted pages.
> do we care?
In the past, we've cared, and we've run catman in the OS volume. That
won't work any more.
The options I can identify (assuming catman still works in Solaris 7):
* Stop caring.
* Run catman on clients during the install/update, perhaps in
oschanges. This might take a little time.
* Make symlinks in /usr/share/man to /os on clients and run
catman on the /os volume. This would not add noticeably to
the install/update time, but could slow down the reading of
man pages on fast machines which had the man pages local but
not the cat pages. More of a concern if and when we
implement the all-packages-local distribution mode.
I'm happy to stop caring; our machines can format man pages pretty
quickly now, I expect.
> 9) I'm not sure what causes the zephyr error (attach?), and I don;t
> think it matters, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
Could you elaborate on this one? I don't know what zephyr error you
are talking about.
