[7302] in testers
Contingency Linux 9.4 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 3 15:59:45 2005
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:59:35 -0400
Message-Id: <200508031959.j73JxZk4014977@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
I will be preparing a contingency build of Athena 9.4 under RHEL 3
over the next couple of days. I would like alpha machine owners to
begin testing it as soon as I have sanity-checked it. Although it may
be possible to downgrade from RHEL 4, reinstalling the alpha machines
at 9.3 is preferrable.
If on August 16, we still haven't fixed the AFS problem under RHEL 4,
then we'll make a final decision to go with the contingency release,
and will expand testing to beta and early machines. If that happens,
beta and early Linux machines will probably also need to reinstalled;
if that will be particularly onerous (reinstalling is not normally in
the beta/early-testing contract), it may be possible to do the OS
downgrade with some manual assistance.
I haven't yet fully worked out the mechanics of the contingency
release testing, but please be prepared to take some manual action on
Friday or this weekend if you have an alpha machine. Here is a linux
of alpha linux machines:
astrophel
breakout
calcite
cheshire-cat
cutter-john
frank-n-furter
galaga
gorf
hexahedron
hodag
n42-253-1
pothole
prevert
