[1747] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Meeting Minutes or 7/28/97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Aug 8 13:39:08 1997
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Aug 1997 11:34:17 EDT."
<sjmg1sns4ue.fsf@charon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 13:38:57 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> * In the meantime, would should tell people to boot to different
> runlevels for Athena vs. non-Athena systems. Make sure Athena
> doesn't use runlevel 2, so RL-2 can be the non-networked runlevel,
> and RL-3 can be the networked runlevel.
There's this issue with the tty login program trying to use the net.
I don't have a convenient workaround, but I don't think runlevels
alone are going to solve the problem.
> - Zephyr
There were only three small changes in zephyr in Athena 8.1, so you
may just want to take a diff. Athena 8.2 will probably see Zephyr
development moved back into the Athena source tree, so there will be a
lot of new (and quite probably unstable) code in the coming
development cycle.
> * amu talked about the classification of programs. He sent out
> some mail about his new package setup. The dependencies are more
> logical in the new setup (separating client from server, for
> example).
I have very little direct interest in how the Linux-0Athena install
works, but I don't see what separating clients from servers has to do
with making "dependencies more logical." At a less nitpicky level, I
think it's a mistake to go in the direction of finer package
granularity when disk space is rapidly becoming a non-issue for your
users.
