Aug 18 OS X Dev Meeting

Participants:
Dave Pugh
Gretchen Kopmanis
Jeff Kopmanis
Jeremy Hallum
Jim Zajkowski
Jake Crawford
Jan Stewart
Todd Austin

Schedule for future meetings: next meeting on Aug 25 10am - noon
  
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?
       Make it REQUIRED - ctools requires it, dean requires ctools
  - radio button functionality for keyclient/mobile
  - dependency checking is easy now (in SNI, not for individual pkg)
       make NAG come after xcode
  - make X11 required instead of selected?
       selected, but not required
  - hide required pkgs?
       leave it as is
       
Jeremy: 10.4.1 update _may_ have broken the ability to create universal
binaries from the command-line


Package Status Reports... (see Excel spreadsheet)

Undefined symbols: _res_9_dn_expand _res_9_search      kfm_aklog_krb5:0
libresolv.9.dylib: 94da50a0 T _res_9_dn_expand
libresolv.9.dylib: 94da586c T _res_9_search
libresolv.dylib -> libresolv.9.dylib


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 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 - 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 -- done
dpugh: Make KFM-PAM by default -- done
dpugh: Configure Spotlight to stay out of AFS
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: Kerberos.pkg (remove Kerberos Extras) -- done
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 repairPermissions.pkg in Tiger --done
     
SOFTWARE INCOMPATIBILITIES/BUGS
- Apple: Root exploit
- Apple: can't kinit after kdestroy (how about after expiration?)
- Apple: .DS_Store files on webdav
- OpenAFS
- Kerberized PAM - works
- SPSS
- Fireworks (only works as admin)
- Flash (only works as admin)
- Groupcal