[3652] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Doc out of date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Sun Mar 17 01:05:43 2002
Message-Id: <200203170605.BAA10599@wolverine.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:43:11 EST."
<20020317034311.GR8045@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 01:05:34 -0500
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Thank you for your concern.
Unfortunately this is more complicated than you seem to
express below.
Simply telling a user to type 'update_ws 9.0' is useless
if they don't have hesiod information. (In fact telling
them to type update_ws at all is probably a bad idea without
mentioining that they need to have hesiod info for this to
work properly). If they are newly registered for hesiod information
(in the install process) -- they should probably just let
their machine update on its own once the hesiod info exists.
If they already had hesiod info (reinstall, request early, etc)
then typing update_ws 9.0 is fine.
When I have more 'free time' -- see "Not until after the beginning
of April" -- I will look into what needs to change in the documentation
in more detail. SInce this really only matters to people that already
have hesiod info and want to update "right away" as opposed to letting
the update happen, it doesn't seem more critical than that.
If someone else would like to work up changes that account for the things
mentioned above, more power to you, feel free :>
--Angie
In message <20020317034311.GR8045@multics.mit.edu>,
John Hawkinson writes:
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>Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 4 Mar 2002
>at 19:04:16 -0500 in <20020305000416.GG29262@innocuous.mit.edu>:
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>> The Linux Athena doc is out of date, and doesn' tell people about
>> upgrading to Athena 9.0.
>>
>> Someone should fix this. I don't have time.
>
>This is pretty pathetic.
>
>Does no one care about this?
>
>Does no one on linux-dev consider themselves responsible?
>
>Beyond that, it sure seems to me that /afs/sipb/project/doc/ilinux is
>in sore need of a reorg.
>
>In any event, I propose this patch.
>
>--jhawk
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>--- rh-net-install.tex Thu Jul 5 20:14:05 2001
>+++ /tmp/p.tex Sat Mar 16 22:41:05 2002
>@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>
> \begin{center}
> {\huge Installing Linux-Athena -- SIPB Installer} \\
>-{\Large Redhat 6.2/Athena 8.4}
>+{\Large Redhat 6.2/Athena 8.4\footnote{You may upgrade to 9.0 after the installation by runn
>ing ``{\tt /etc/athena/update\_ws 9.0}''.}}
> \end{center}
>
> You may have used the Linux-Athena workstations deployed in many
>
>--uCozLMBrA/OCc/kF--
