SL4_Development -

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

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?

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

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

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

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	?