Cluedump - October 17, 2012

Introduction

• 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

Debian Packaging

• WhatIsAPackage
• GettingStartedWithDevelopment
  • Install required packages and set up your build environment)
• AnatomyOfAPackage
  • What files are needed for a package, what do they contain, etc.
• BuildingAPackage
  • Actually building the package
• CaffeinatedSubversion
  • Subversion and the repository layout
• ConfigPackageDev
• Examples
  • debathena-gconf2-wrapper
  • debathena-bugme