Cluedump - October 18, 2011

Outline:

• What is Debian/Ubuntu??
• What is Athena? (briefly)
  • AFS homedir, dialup, cluster, mail/lists, kerberos, LDAP, moira
• An overview of the technology behind Debathena, including things like:
  • chroots
  • the update system
  • hesiod/NSS/PAM
• Anatomy of a Debian package (kaduk)
  • AnatomyOfAPackage
  • changelog, compat, control, copyright, rules
  • package.{install,links,init,cron.d,docs,dirs}
  • maintainer scripts (users, services, rc scripts, gconf, other configuration files)
• metapackages and their organization/hierarchy (e.g. w20-575-60 has 3173 packages installed; there are about 150 debathena packages)
  • locker, clients, standard, login, login-graphical, workstation, cluster (extra-software, thirdparty)
• what c-p-d does (diversions and symlinks and transformations) (geofft)
• svn tree and locker organization
  • athena
    • bin (old athena utilities, athinfo, attach, discuss, getcluster)
    • etc (daemons: athinfod, cviewd, larvnetd)
    • lib (locker, athdir, ...)
  • debathena
    • NOTES
    • config
    • contrib
    • debathena
    • manual-config
    • meta
    • scripts
    • third
  • doc
  • third

• Package example: get debathena-gconfd-2-wrapper