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Reported by tabbott, 17 years ago.

The debathena-zephyr-config package should be converted to use the new config-package-dev interface, described at http://debathena.mit.edu/config-packages. Instructions are available at http://debathena.mit.edu/hackathon.

Reported by tabbott, 17 years ago.

We should replace the Athena build chroot access mechanism on Linerva (currently using athmode, a custom C program written by tabbott) with schroot. This probably involves:

• Testing the athena chroot installer available in /mit/debathena/packages/config/athena-chroot, and getting an Athena chroot setup on mega-man (or a sipb-xen VM).
• configuring schroot to make sure /mit, /afs, and /tmp are mounted in the chroot and that they forward the KRB5CCNAME and KRBTKFILE environment variables.
• writing scripts to replace the sendmail, lastlog, and athmode programs by calling the appropriate program inside the chroot (all three should be very simple wrappers around schroot).
• It may be useful to backport schroot from lenny; this for example makes the mountpoint task easier.

Reported by tabbott, 17 years ago.

Getting msmtp working as a sendmail replacement will improve linerva security (by removing dependence on sendmail) and make many more mail senders on Debathena machines able to send authentic email. This probably involves:

• Modifying the /usr/lib/debathena-mstmp script to remove the -t argument and perhaps fail to using outgoing-legacy when tickets are not available.
• Make a new debathena-msmtp-sendmail package (from the

debathena-msmtp-config source package) that Provides: mail-transport-agent and includes the new script as /usr/lib/sendmail

• testing it a whole lot with clients like pine, evolution, mail, mutt, etc.