[2371] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Releasing Linux-Athena 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Tue Jan 12 01:58:18 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:58:04 -0500 (EST)
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
I'd like to get this thing released during IAP, while people still
have some free time to install the damn thing. As far as I can tell,
here are the issues that may be holding up the release:
- The installation process should modify /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/rc.conf as necessary.
- There are problems with libc5 programs in some lockers. (perl5,
moira, xv, trn, etc.) I plan to make a athena-libc5 package that
tries to make these programs work. So far, I know that the package
should contain the /usr/lib/{terminfo,zoneinfo} symlinks. What else
should it contain?
- It would be nice to have a boot disk that knows about sipb-nfs. (It
might also be nice to have a boot disk that can do srvd install,
although I question if anyone ever actually used that.)
- We should give locker-maintainers some warning about the new
platform. Actually, we should have done this a year ago. Oh well.
I'll send email to locker-maintainers after I send this email.
- It worries me somewhat that if you uninstall the xlogin package, you
lose any changes you have made to /etc/inittab since you installed
athena-xlogin. (The changes aren't even stored in a .bak file
somewhere; they're just plain gone.) (The same goes for
/etc/inetd.conf and the athena-rc package.) We should give more
thought to the whole configuration file issue. However, I think these
same problems exist in 4.2, and I don't think we should delay the 5.2
release because of any issue where 5.2 doesn't make things worse.
- We should update whatever Linux-Athena documentation exists. For
example, we should document how to create sshd public and private
keys, and how to modify rc.conf to turn on sshd.
None of this should take very long. Volunteers?
Sal.
