Here's what currently happens with the RPMs from openafs.org (note that there are other OpenAFS builds available, which will have different behaviour).
We don't distribute a 'CellServDB' file as such. Instead, the RPM has a script that runs immediately following installation which combines the contents of CellServDB.dist (which comes from the RPM) and CellServDB.local (in which you can make local additions) to produce CellServDB. CellServDB is the only file that is read by OpenAFS itself.
'ThisCell' and 'cacheinfo' are marked as configuration files in the RPM spec. This means that if we don't change them between releases, then any changes you make will remain in place. However, if something in those files changes between releases, your changes will be moved to a '.rpmorig' file, and the ones from the RPM installed. This is probably suboptimal - I'll look at fixing this.
If you have a CellServDB.rpmorig, it suggests that you're not using the current OpenAFS RPMs. How recently was that file created?
Cheers, Simon. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
