[2052] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Hello,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Jul 26 23:06:32 1998
To: "Michael P. Phillips" <mpp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Jul 1998 23:06:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Michael P. Phillips"'s message of "Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:39:04 -0400"
"Michael P. Phillips" <mpp@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I was just wondering if there is work being done with Linux-Athena
> (I figure there probably is a release on its way) and if there is a shortage
> of manpower. If so, I'm volunteering to help port / test anything that needs
> to get done.
Yeah, we're working on a release based on Red Hat 5.1 and Athena 8.2,
tentatively scheduled for this fall. Theoretically, we have plenty of
manpower, though some of us seem otherwise occupied.
Anyway, here's what I believe needs to be done for the release:
(1) Make the source-sipb tree happy on Red Hat 5.1. This is mostly
done, with the exception of a bunch of stuff in the "packs"
subtree (configuration files and the like), which takes more
thought (because there are cases where Red Hat and Athena do
different things or do the same thing differently here). I
haven't committed my changes here because I'm leaving my computer
in 5.1 mode so Derek can work on Linux-AFS.
(2) Prepare packages with the Athena files. Traditionally, we've just
been constructing packages directly from binaries we'd built, but
I'm vaguely tempted to arrange to build them from the original
sources instead, which is more Red Hat-like. (We'd still need to
do something special for the srvd packages, but I have an idea for
that too; if anyone's interested, I can send details.)
(3) Merge the Red Hat-Athena modifications into Red Hat's new
installer. (Emil, you're still working on this, right?)
(4) Test and debug everything.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
