Aug 25 OS X Dev Meeting

Participants:
Dave Pugh
Gretchen Kopmanis
Jeff Kopmanis
Scott Lemm
Todd Austin

Schedule for future meetings: none planned... plan over email
  
Package Status Reports... (see Excel spreadsheet)
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsait/admin/mac/minutes/Tiger-pkgs.xls

Todd - Acrobat:  does new Adobe Update.app successfully update a keyed Adobe app?  Can auto updating be turned off and where is that done (plist, etc.) and is that a way that can be packaged?  Find out power-user (i.e. James Porter) needs for Acrobat - will it be feasible to broadly disable intrusive Acrobat settings?

Todd - EndNote:  Mirlyn problem is gone, failing to install Office plugins, will repackage.

Jeff: load customization appears to work well.
Jeff: Math made LyX pkg.

Dave edited postflight script for R-Frameworks.pkg inside the the R.mpkg to enable it to run from a NetInstall server as well as the local disk.  This is the pkg that comes straight from the R Project folks.  The change was submitted to the R Project and has been accepted for inclusion in the next release.

Kerberos package now ONLY has UMICH.EDU realm

Tiger is still not considered done and in production until the following are met:
  - SPSS works
  - Desktop Management solution is in place

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] - no longer needed
  - 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?
  - 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
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: 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 -- 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
     
SOFTWARE INCOMPATIBILITIES/BUGS
- Apple: Root exploit -- fixed by apple
- Apple: can't kinit after kdestroy (how about after expiration?) -- seems to be working on our load... maybe because of we create a new security session in our plugin???
- Apple: .DS_Store files on webdav
- OpenAFS
- SPSS
- Fireworks (only works as admin)
- Flash (only works as admin)
- Groupcal