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CSuite Workshop - April 2, 1997
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Agenda:
* Bug Reporting System
* Patcher
* CD production
* CCN Upgrade
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Bug Reporting System
Andrew Dacey reported that a new form was being built for inclusion in
the distribution that would accept a problem description, and collect
system information, which would be together submitted by mail to
bugs@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca "bugs" will be an alias mail-list until a
routine is built to extract the information into a bug reports
database.
After discussion it was decided that the form should be organized to
place the most important information first, decreasing in likely
importance down the report, in order to aid human interpretation.
* problem description
* uname -a
* CS_CONF/vars
* host-name
* version string, md5sum, closure, modification state
Sean and James are investigating use of MSQL and checking the
distribution terms to see if we can distribute it under our terms.
A support database is urgently needed to track the installation and
help issues, and bug reports, with capability to review the history
and search for issues, and track progress.
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Patcher
Landon is experimenting with the patcher capability. Currently he has
the system fetch the patch from http://csuite.chebucto.ns.ca/~landon.
More results to come.
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CD production
David Murdoch, Landon Boyd, and Ed Dyer attended an introductory
seminar on production of CD's at the Dalhousie Digital Video Centre
(DVC). It appears that it would be possible to make useful trial
versions using the centre's equipment. Landon reported that he was
working on a boot disk that could bring the system up using Linux. He
is leaning toward Red Hat Linux at this point, and we need to check
out whether we can distribute a useful subset of (Red Hat or other)
Linux on the CD along with our CSuite distribution. A floppy disk
might be distributed with the CD to boot right into the installation
process.
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CCN Upgrade
Three routes to upgrading CCN are under consideration.
New Machine
provides an opportunity to do a CSuite install to a new system,
while preserving the existing user/data environment.
Split load
Install an Intel machine to handle httpd,
NFS mount the "info" file system to CCN.
can be relatively transparent
possibly transfer other services as well, such as terminal
service.
+ CD Ethernet/PCMCIA server - most flexible
+ terminal server - most expensive
+ multi-port boards - internal, difficult to service
+ CD SCSI server - least desirable
prove scalability of CSuite for larger sites.
Processor upgrade
multi-processor
requires Solaris
significant changes, will probably break some functions.
We need to explore these options in more detail, and prepare a
proposal for the Board.
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Submitted by Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca
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