Aug 11 OS X Dev Meeting Participants: Dave Pugh Gretchen Kopmanis Brian Cors Jeff Kopmanis Jeremy Hallum Vlad Miskevich Jim Zajkowski Todd Austin Jake Crawford Dave Glaser Missed the Aug 10 goal... What's the plans going forward? Schedule for future meetings: next meeting on Aug 18 and Aug 25 10am - noon You can do SNI installs of Tiger now (for testing/building only) New Tiger installation features - move things into fake mpkgs? (macromedia apps, adobe apps, math apps, etc) NO - leave everything flat - make firefox required instead of selected? selected, but not required - radio button functionality for keyclient/mobile - dependency checking is easy now (in SNI, not for individual pkg) - make X11 required instead of selected? selected, but not required - hide required pkgs? leave it as is for this week - talk about it again next week Package Status Reports... Classic (Panther) works in TIGER. Tested it with MS Word 5.1 NeoOffice updated to v1.1 - no additional action necessary Mathematica is now 5.2, but has Panther and Tiger specific versions EnhancedCarbonEmacs is available, but has Panther and Tiger specific versions - no additional Package Listing: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/admin/mac/minutes/Tiger-pkgs.xls Packages - do not include version numbers in package names - do not use spaces in package names - if the existing package name meets above criteria, use same name as existing package Other packages: - Citrix [bcors] - M-Pathways in Citrix 7 working. DAC connections are not. Troubleshooting. - Thunderbird [bcors] - Cyberduck [bcors] - root exploit fixer [dpugh] - webdav .DS_Store fixer [dpugh] Some UM Specific widgets to develop (archived here): - 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 - free, works with the above feed - but form-factor isn't great. News Reader - free, allows multiple RSS feeds -- http://www.benkazez.com/newsreader.php - 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 [not done yet] - RSSBean or News Reader 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. 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: EVERYONE: finish packages Scott: review NetO/TB2 packages for Tiger compatibility Scott: work w/ Physics on LabView Todd: explore widget creation Todd: explore SP2 availability, CS2 availability for packaging Jeff: test v10 netboot image. Tested v11 with satisfactory results. Jeff: test aklog from binaries, along with any new builds of OpenAFS. Brian: Find/poke at RSS-site-specific widgets, see if we can hack one for ITCS Outages page - Found a free new one that allows for feeds from multiple sites, called NewsReader - http://www.benkazez.com/newsreader.php General outstanding To-Dos: Gretchen - New packagemaker docs BEGUN if not finished Jeremy - update dports package from 1.0 to newest 1.0.update--done Jeremy - condense individual packages to package groups.--done Jeremy - figure out how the non unix apps do their compiling for fat binaries.-done Jeremy - document universal binaries.--almost done. Jeremy - Create a separate pkg to Add manpages to spotlight index path--not done Karen, Vlad - Entourage testing - need a CD key to install dpugh: Make Kerberized-Console default in install dpugh: Make KFM-PAM by default dpugh: Configure Spotlight to stay out of AFS dpugh: Update to Xcode2.1 --done 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: logGen - add spotlight database files (/.Spotlight-V100/*) to ignore list dpugh: file enhancement request to have PlistBuddy added to Developer Tools --done dpugh: Kerberos.pkg (remove Kerberos Extras) kopmanis: TeX package update. iTeXMac will not be part of the mpkg. NEW: Urgency is bumped, due to TeXshop2's new Tiger-only features. ???: New NetO pkg that is compatible with Tiger startup process ???: Verify TB2 pkg is compatible with Tiger ???: Verify repairPermissions.pkg in Tiger --done SOFTWARE INCOMPATIBILITIES - OpenAFS - Kerberized PAM? (UNTESTED) - SPSS - Fireworks (only works as admin) - Flash (only works as admin) - Adobe Reader 6 - Groupcal