July 7 OS X Dev Meeting

Participants:
Dave Pugh
Gretchen Kopmanis
Dave Chmura
Brian Cors
Vlad Miskevic
Todd Austin
Jim Zajkowski
Jeff Kopmanis
Jeremy Hallum

Schedule for future meetings: Thursdays from 10-12

SNI change?  Don't require user to exist in UMOD
   - talk about again next week
Does everyone know that Apple-q will quit the registration screens?
And, ARD2 can create a .pkg that will create users (In the Manage/Change Client Settings menu),
  but IMHO, does not create admin users.  --- looks like the script can be super-easily modified to make it an admin user

Power/Sleep settings
Continue along current path to sleep display and drive, leave CPU on


Anyone want to develop some more widgets (UM-specific)?
  - umod (someone already is working on this external to LSA)
      -- Add a button to save data to addressbook
  - UM map - Jim Knox may be a resource for this - working on a map for students with disabilities
  - UM network/service outages -- http://status.itcs.umich.edu/ ... others?
    ITCS Outage RSS Feed created:  http://status.itcs.umich.edu/feed/
    RSSBean widget works with the above feed - but form-factor isn't great.
    Maybe hack existing RSS widget for another site-specific widget and make it UMich-oriented?
  - others?
  - 'Swiss Army' UM widgets - combine single-function UMich widgets all into a metapackage
  - Quick-submit to FootPrints (easy) (have to keep project number as a config)
  - FootPrints Ticket browser (a little harder, but not terrible)
  - Support Profiler (S/N, UMtag, IP, MACaddr, userID, room#)  I wrote a command line tool (and cocoa version) that will produce the apple SN, NewWorld Name, and primary ethernet address from the IO registry .. source at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jamesez/mac-serial-finder.tar.gz, cocoa binary at ..../macidentifier.dmg -- Jim
  -I've started the learning curve on my own time.  It's way more complex than I would have thought.  javascript is a strange, strange beast.
  
Other widgets to meta-package:
  - Package Tracker
  - Weather  [DoppleViewer?  RadarInMotion?]
  - Yahoo Traffic
  - SysStat
  - GoogleMaps (Brian) [not done yet]
  
  
del.icio.us - Shared links page created [with RSS feeds out]
URL:    http://del.icio.us/umichlsaosxdev
RSS:    http://del.icio.us/rss/umichlsaosxdev
Ask bcors for demo, if needed.
Firefox extensions and widgets available to add bookmarks easily.


Status reports on last week's action items
Dave P: Netboot image is working, but can't install SSL keychains of Panther OS
Dave G: keyaccess - not done yet
Jeff: AFS update: talks to AFS databases (pts, etc work).  Mounts the root volumes for cells.  It can't stat a filesystem at all right now  (as of 6/30).  Going to wait for development to calm down a bit before trying again.
Todd: haven't heard anything from Microsoft
Gretchen: joined snerdware mailing list.  Haven't heard anything from them, Microsoft, or SPSS
Jeremy: no progress on repackaging unix utils.
Jim: created a softwareupdate package that opens an iHook window over the 
  loginwindow, reboots


Do we need to make universal binaries for our unix tools?
Jeremy will try it with the unix tools, and document it.

Jim has created a self-disabling startupitem that runs only the first time a machine is booted after installation.  It automatically does a softwareupdate in the foreground in front of the login window.  If the current set of updates required a reboot it does that after installing (e.g. a security update depends on a 10.4 point release).  Once all updates have been installed then the startup item disables itself.  Configuration options include if you want to use a software update server or Apple, if you want to install all or recommended updates, and if you want it to disable when it's done or to run on every boot.

Jim will put this up at some URL and e-mail the group.
  

Classic: It appears to run in Tiger.  Don't offer it in the standard college build?

Adobe Reader:  Todd will create a package for Tiger, but it will not be installed by default.  Preview now handles forms completion.

MSOffice 2004 SP1 bug with Adobe Acrobat:
The existance of 
  /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/{Excel,Word,PowerPoint}/PDFmaker.{xla,ppa,dot}
  causes the AUTOEXEC error we've seen intermittently.

Action items for next time:
Dave P: netboot image. Package up Tiger for network installation
Jeremy: have some unix packages compiled in universal form
Todd: explore widget creation
Todd: explore SP2 availability, CS2 availability for packaging
Todd:  package Stata 9
Todd:  generate comprehensive list of current packages, compare against what's be rebuilt/tested for Tiger
Dave G: package KeyClient 
Jeff: Retest Tiger OpenAFS Package with latest available
Gretchen: contact Snerdware about Groupcal-Tiger update
Gretchen: contact SPSS about SPSS-Tiger update
Gretchen: ask macsig if anyone is building UM-specific widgets
Jim: will be packaging KeyClient for LSI - may be able use for us too
Jim: finish auto-softwareupdate pkg
Brian: Get with someone re: packaging how-to
Brian: Find/poke at RSS-site-specific widgets, see if we can hack one for ITCS Outages page


General outstanding To-Dos:
Gretchen - New packagemaker docs BEGUN if not finished
Jeremy - DarwinPorts
Jeremy - UNIX pkgs
Jeremy - document universal binaries
Jeremy - Create a separate pkg to Add manpages to spotlight index path
Karen, Vlad - Entourage testing - need a CD key to install
Todd - pkg Adobe CS2 apps, including Reader - security updates this week
???: Package Acrobat 7.0 Pro
Todd - pkg Office (SP2, if at all possible)
Todd - pkg Stata 9SE
dpugh: Make Kerberized-Console default in install
dpugh: Make KFM-PAM by default
dpugh: Configure Spotlight to stay out of AFS
dpugh: Make Tiger NBI
dpugh: Update to Xcode2.1
dpugh: Software Update Server & plist & removal pkg (dpugh)
        Jim: already have divined what is necessary for SUS enabling in
             software update, let me know for more info
dpugh: should we re-vamp our directory services setup on the servers when we 
    upgrade them to Tiger? Maybe use automatic replication?  Just connect to UMOD 
    and use ACLs? Yes
dpugh: add spotlight database files (/.Spotlight-V100/*) to logGen's ignore list
dpugh: file enhancement request to have PlistBuddy added to Developer Tools
dpugh: Kerberos.pkg (remove Kerberos Extras)
kopmanis: TeX package updates.  Want to poll to find out what users really need 
   rather than the KitchenSink variety of mpkg.  iTeXMac is on the chopping block first, 
   as TeXshop seems more popular.
dsglaser: make new KeyAccess/KeyMobile packages
???: New NetO pkg that is compatible with Tiger startup process
???: Verify TB2 pkg is compatible with Tiger
???: Verify repairPermissions.pkg in Tiger

Jim: Update Stuffit Expander package (stuffit.pkg) - done
Jim: look to see if there's a classic package on the 10.4-with-computer discs
     btw, a copy of classic on my machine works under Tiger; I'm willing to
     throw that into a .pkg and see if this works for people.
     
EVERYONE - Firewall UDP blocking - how's it working?  Looks reasonable to me.

SOFTWARE INCOMPATIBILITIES
- OpenAFS
- Kerberized PAM? (UNTESTED)
- our KeyAccess pkg - dsglaser will pkg new version
- SPSS
- Fireworks (only works as admin)
- Flash (only works as admin)
- Adobe Reader 6
- Groupcal

External Sources report problems with:
- Photoshop
- Virtual PC - fixed in 7.0.2, released June 28
- Virex

Before we can stop offering Panther:
OpenAFS
SPSS
Security issues fixed
Groupcal