We can keep the old sysnames as is, and invent a new convention based on kernel version or glibc version for newer systems. This way we would be backward compatible and probably solve the problem for newer systems as well.
On Jan 2, 2008 5:43 PM, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Avinesh Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Seem the right reason to do this in past ! > > But the problem is still there. > > And probably always will be, since changing sysnames is a nasty > backward-incompatible change and people have already build infrastructure > on local interpretations or workarounds for the existing sysnames. > > I suppose we could start setting a sysname list based on both the kernel > version and the glibc version by default, but I shudder to think of the > Autoconf glue. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/<http://www.eyrie.org/%7Eeagle/> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
