Custom Query (1145 matches)

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

gkovacs reports and I confirmed with sipbtest that you can't log in to a cluster machine running reactivate 2 if your home directory is system:anyuser none:

E: Failed to change to directory ‘/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/g/k/gkovacs’: Permission denied

I haven't determined which change causes this, or even whether it's the new schroot version or just the more different way in which we're using it.

Reported by geofft, 15 years ago.

The debathenificator doesn't currently support starting with a completely separate source package (because that's not its intent; the intent is to modify the source package in each supported distro), so I can't use it for our schroot 1.3 backport. I currently have a clone of upstream's git repo with some additional patches in debuild:/home/debuild/geofft/schroot/schroot (the patches are also in /mit/geofft/debathena/schroot), and I'm building and uploading it to jaunty-development by running sbuild and reprepro myself. This is very not sustainable and needs to be fixed before the package escapes to anything other than -development.

Also, I've specifically backported schroot 1.3 to Jaunty, so it may not fit well with our multi-distribution model -- there's no point of this anyway. But somehow we need to be keeping our patches for schroot in Athena SVN and make our build scripts/infrastructure capable of building it.

Reported by geofft, 14 years ago.

It would be really cool if we could use one of our site licenses for MS Office (e.g., the one that WIN.MIT.EDU clusters use, or the MS Campus Agreement) to cover cluster machines and run MS Office via Wine, since there are differences in rendering, advanced features, etc. between MS Office and OpenOffice?.org.

jdreed believes that one of these licenses could actually cover clusters and said he'd talk with the person who does MS licensing; meanwhile, we should test that Office actually runs acceptably under Wine.