[3558] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: ypbind lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Sep 30 09:29:37 2001
Message-Id: <200109301329.JAA28102@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:44:34 EDT."
<200109291944.PAA22699@quickstation-zocalo.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 09:29:32 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Let me make it painfully clear that one cannot take ANY update be it
> to 8.4.26 or to 9.0 without cluster info (hesiod or cluster.local).
> So the need to kludge a cluster.local file is not an issue that is
> unique to an 8.4.26 update some sort of hesiod type information is
> required for any update.
As of 8.4.21, Linux machines have been able to take updates (automatic
or manual) without cluster info, as long as they are updating to a
version in the current full release. The problem here is that 8.4 is
not the current full release and (as we all know) the update from
broken-8.4.25 to 9.0.x doesn't work, so users without clusterinfo are
stuck performing a more complicated procedure.
I will look into having non-clusterinfo machines use the public-linux
clusterinfo instead of the control-current symlink, to reduce the
likelihood of this kind of problem in the future. Won't help anyone
currently in this situation, though.
