[2952] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: new installer getting found by users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Thu Sep 7 04:20:11 2000
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 07 Sep 2000 04:20:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: Camilla R Fox's message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 22:15:03 -0400"
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Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I just dealt with a user on the phone who'd found and tried to use the
> rh-6.2 installer out of the linux locker... (and no, I don't have a
> coherent bug report, I didn't want to deal with him using it)
>
> Can we acl that directory to authuser in the sipb cell (or something
> else that we can presume all our testers are on, but that random users
> aren't)?
>
> -Camilla
acling the directory is likely to get in our way before too long. Accordingly:
I just renamed bootnet.img to bootnet.img.DONTUSE (and we should keep it
named that until we're ready to do a public beta).
I also put the following in a README file:
--
Hi there. This is the working directory for SIPB's IS-Linux installer project.
It's not done.
It's so not done, that if you do figure out how to try it, and it a) destroys
all data on your computer, b) destroy all data on your neighbor's computers,
c) blows up your computer, d) prank calls the IRS and causes you to be audited
every year for the rest of your life, and e) drives you stark raving mad,
we will we be so unsympathetic that we will point at you, laugh, and make
encouraging suggestions to the IRS.
Really, don't pick random data out of AFS and run it on your computer. It's
unsanitary, and you never *know* what you might end up with.
If you really must contact somone about this, try linux-dev@mit.edu.
No guarantees.
--
If you feel like changing that to something less acerbic, feel free.
kcr
