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
• what c-p-d does (diversions and symlinks) (geofft)
• svn tree and locker organization

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