On Saturday, January 29, 2005 3:29 am, Johan Andersson wrote: > Is net-fs/openafs ebuids actively maintained?
Not that I've been able to ascertain. > The latest ebuild is 1.2.11, from Jun 25 2004. This version contains > some serious bugs, including a critical DoS. It should be updated to > 1.2.13. Additionally, the init script and install paths are seriously > broken in this ebuild. That's not even mentioning the OpenAFS ebuilds for kernel 2.6 series that are in dire need of being commited into the Portage tree. Here's an email I wrote to one of the developers regarding this problem, and since I haven't had any luck finding a resolution, perhaps a list-post will be more useful: I realize that the developer brought on to maintain the OpenAFS ebuilds had a fair amount of catch-up to do regarding the existing bugs, however those same bugs are now left stagnating and are not being addressed in a timely (or even untimely) manner. There's presently an updated ebuild available that will allow OpenAFS to work with 2.6 kernels, and it's been sitting in neglect for quite a while in Bugzilla, having not been commited to Portage despite the fact that several users (including myself) are already using it for testing purposes. Has the maintainer chosen not to continue supporting the package, or is this simply a lack of recent updates? It's becoming quite aggravating to see the working code available, and having to manually overlay it onto the tree every time I need to upgrade my software. I've attempted to contact the maintainer on two separate occasions over the past three months and have received no response to either one of the messages. Would you mind looking into this matter? I would be satisfied with an "it's being worked-on," however filing another bug report about the same issue would likely accomplish nothing of consequence, given the circumstances. ---- We really need to find a resolution to this. Other OpenAFS matters have been dealt with (such as the pam_krb5 dependency issue): can we please get, at the least, a commit on the newer OpenAFS ebuilds? -- Anthony Gorecki Ectro-Linux Foundation
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