[2023] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: How about a new RH-A release for next year?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun May 31 14:55:53 1998
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 31 May 1998 13:54:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: Emil Sit's message of Sun, 31 May 1998 14:23:03 EDT
Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It's summer time. We have lots of free time. (Right.) Do we want
> to do a new release of RedHat-Athena for next fall? (Say, with an
> intended release in August? :) If so, we ought to start work soon
> and probably basing stuff on the newly released RH5.1. But, lots
> of stuff has changed since 4.2. Offhand, they've changed:
That would be a good idea. Note: I'm going to be out of town until
*very* late August, but I think I'll have time to work on stuff from
NJ. At any rate, I was thinking pretty much the same thing. :-)
> * Libc. This will probably break loads of things... anyone have any
> idea how bad that will be? I haven't touched glibc at all.
It shouldn't be too bad given well-written source. I don't know how
well it will go with the Athena tree, but we should be able to deal.
> * Installation stuff --- kickstart? disk druid? probably not too much
> of Derek's stuff will be applicable. I'm interested in looking
> at this part of stuff this year.
Yeah, somebody needs to deal with that. Thanks for volunteering.
> * Configuration --- linuxconf. Anyone play with this? Could we extend
> it to support rc.conf type stuff?
When I get the chance, I'll install Red Hat 5.1 on my scratch disk and
play around with it.
>
> * How much of the SIPB-Athena source tree builds on RH5.1 cleanly?
>
> * How out of sync is that source from Athena-8.2? What 8.2 changes do
> we want to integrate? (looking at /afs/dev/project/relnotes/rel82.tex)
The source-sipb locker contains an Athena 8 tree ported to build on
NetBSD; I think Sal also got some patches for Linux in there. At any
rate, we probably ought to switch to it and let the sipb-athena locker
die.
> * Other new stuff or old stuff that we didn't quite pull in for 4.2...
> - libAL + PAM?
Derek was theoretically working on this, as he had much more PAM clue
than anyone else. I don't know what he got done.
> - auto-updates?
Yeah, we really ought to get that done.
