[indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

[Roland Mainz]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
> 
>    Danek and I have been poking around at packaging the last little
>    while; I've written down many of the issues we're juggling in a blog
>    post:
> 
>    http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/observations_on_packaging

AFAIK one item is missing:
- The packaging system should work with diskless and/or networked
clients, e.g. clients which get all filesystems (even the root
filesystem) via NFS or AFS/DFS (this feature is very important for
universities or large custers).

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Bye,
Roland

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