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== Bugs in distro wee need to fix ==

 * SL 4.2: `service dhcpd status` buggy, always returns 0

TableOfContents

Overall Status

automatic installation

final tweaks to postinstall needed, but works well

automatic maintenance

sue, aaru,kernel works

integration / features

the hard ones are done, but many missing

user/group environment

profiles/hepix etc. need lots of work

application software

many open questions

batch/grid

no work done yet

Xsession environment

many open questions

desktop

no work done yet

general

  • main targets: cleanup, progress
    • user level compatibility with SL3 & Solaris is NOT

  • for file distribution, prefer rpm over cfengine-copy-by-checksum
  • clean up profiles! do NOT copy from SL3!
  • no more hepixdm - replacement needed?

open questions

support only bash as the login shell?

  • zsh has UTF-8 issues
  • can we stop supporting tcsh as a login shell?
    • much effort especially since we have to change the profiles
    • not recommended anyway

replace NIS/LDAP with local files?

Why not finally rid ourselves of all NIS/LDAP/nsswicth(compat...) problems?

  • distribute /etc/groups (like we already do with netgroups)
  • create /etc/passwd from a distributed master file (taking into account who gets a shell on the system)
    • this would also make it easy to change all users' shels to bash

done

  • CKS3.pl works (same script, input, location etc. as SL3)
  • SL3U.pl works (same script as SL3, but need /opt/products/perl/5.8.2 - link to SL3 products is ok)
  • AI client works
  • aaru scripts work (same as on SL3)
  • remapgroups works and is installed
  • ppm, prpm, products feature
  • staged errata, aaru feature
  • KUSL3.pl, kernel feature
  • automount feature
  • postinstallation

roadmap

  1. other priority1 features (sue) (?profiles?)
  2. Milestone: Regular test systems
  3. priority2 features
  4. Milestone: Ready for special purposes
  5. priority3 features
  6. Milestone: public preview

little todos

  • check: remapgroups in default.ys ?

features

aaru

done

account

3

afs_client

3

arcd

won't

should not be needed naymore

arcx

5

automount

done

cfengine

2

conmgr

5

dhcp

5

doocsadm

5

emacs

2

trivial

hepixdm

4

replace with new simple xdm feature?

hosts

2

inetd

3

kerberos

3

kernel

done

klogin

3

ldap

2

links

won't

links should be packaged

linux

3

localdisks

5

mail

3

motd

3

nagios

5

name_srv

5

netgroup

2

nfs

2

NFS4 ?

nsswitch

2

use local files for everything ?

optpro

?

pam

3

passwd

2

use local files for everything ?

passwd_prog

3

printing

3

products

done

profiles

won't

most of this should go into hepix and other packages

removable_media

5

scout

4

security

2

sge

5

sound

5

ssh

3

sudo

3

sue

done

sue_links

won't

should be packaged

syslog

3

tcp_wrapper

2

testcfe

?

tidy_up

3

trusted

2

vamos

2

xf86

5

xntp

done

ypclient

3

zzz

?

Bugs in distro wee need to fix

  • SL 4.2: service dhcpd status buggy, always returns 0

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