The Arusha Project (ARK) seeks to provide a
framework and/or tools for collaborative system
administration of multi-platform Unix sites with
many dozens of machines.
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This release includes support for Solaris 10 and Fedora Core (3), including the latter on x86_64. There is initial support for NFSv4, and for ARK repositories kept under Subversion.
This is the last version of the core teams' code licensed under the GPL; the next and subsequent versions will be under the BSD license. In the Sidai code, the first code is in place to manipulate ARK state events (event-utils/lsevents); the 'sync-replica' tool can now use rdiff-backup as well as rsync; new packages were added to install Mozilla and Eclipse binaries and for Subversion and (retro-tool...) DVIutils from source; plus many small enhancements. Sample CUPS support was added to the Verilab2 code.
In the ARK engine, host context tracking was
improved. An attempt is made to satisfy new
constraints with previously chosen constraints.
"May-fail" constraints were added. In the Sidai
code, networking info has been generalized, and
sample packet-filter code was changed to match.
General support for RH Linux 9 was added. A
"clean" method was added to most packages. In
individual teams' code, there are now examples of
using rdiff-backup and of how to kickstart an RH
Linux box into ARK-readiness. Over 150 package
specifications are new or updated to current
software versions.
The project's LISA 2001 paper is now available. 'Tooldoc' supports easy location of non-standard documentation. 'Toolenv' supports careful intermingling of environment variables when tool versions are being controlled. Password distribution tools now work with shadow files. A new 'device' thing (anything except a host) has been introduced. HP-UX11 support was refreshed. Newly supported packages include: gaim, SML-NJ, Jakarta XML/Java tools (initial support), and GNOME 2 tools (ditto). Many other package updates, minor improvements, and a few bugfixes were made.
