On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:03:20AM +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > On 7 Aug 2007, at 23:51, Axel Thimm wrote: > > >I wouldn't mind if someone adds a build time switch to leave that > >choice to the concerned user, e.g. something like > > > >rpmbuild --rebuild --with transarcpaths ... openafs-x.y.z-w.src.rpm > > > >but it will make the specfile look messier. > > I've been thinking for a while about producing a patch for the > OpenAFS specfile which creates a compatibility RPM containing links > from the FHS paths to the transarc ones. Something like this is going > be necessary to provide a migration strategy for sites running with > transarc paths who want to change.
Ideally this patch would be against upstream sources, so other Linuxes/Unices can directly profit from it. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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