On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 04:27, Ian Kent wrote:
> > This package has not been actively maintained by Jeremy for a long time
> > now and so I would like to take on the role of maintainer. I have mailed
> > Jeremy to discuss this but have had no reply so I am appealing to the list
> > for support.
>
> Hm, I must have missed that mail.
>
> > Comments please.
>
> Go for it. Autofs 4 as it stands scratches all my itches, so my
> motivation to do more with it has (obviously) been low. Some subtle
> problems have popped up in the kernel side lately which I plan to work
> on, but do what you think is useful to user-mode.
Thanks for your support.
Unfortuneately the functionality I need very much relies on changes to the
kernel module. Can we cooperate on this some how?
>
> The big, obvious problem is packaging the current stuff properly, and
> making the init scripts work with all the different distros. The
> secondary problems have been feature-related, in particular all the
> different places people want to get their maps from. I've never really
> been able to test that stuff, but it is mostly common to v3.
Yes.
This is on my list. I believe that it can be addressed by bringing the
parsing of the master map into the daemon. This will enable a much more
generic init script to be written.
Yep. I can't test them either. For example, I don't have access to NIS+
and so can't do anything there.
>
> I'll collect together my local patches I've accumulated and send them to
> you.
Thanks
Regards
Ian
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