> > The drawback to the atrpms rpms is that they're using the FHS style > > paths. > > Why is that a drawback (the question is sincere). While perhaps long > time users will need to rethink the paths they have to do so anyway on > a Linux system compared to AIX, Solaris etc. And any openafs > acceptance into any Linux distribution has better cards to be FHS than > not. If openafs every makes it into RHEL/Fedora proper it will have to > be FHS style.
If there's a chance of that, fine, but otherwise, change for the sake of change is dumb. > But let's make everybody happy: How about an rpmbuild time switch to > allow anyone to rebuild with their favourite path style. I would still > want to see FHS being the default, but transarc style is just a > one-line change in the rpmbuild specfile. Likewise, the people who are using Transarc style would want that to be default :) > Just looking for synergy and a common openafs rpm design. Which could > very well be more than Fedora/RHEL (but I admit not being a SuSE or > Mandriva expert, so someone would have to step in to aid in this > part). :) In theory we already have it. I've built the release SRPM on SLES. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
