On 29 Jan 2010, at 10:56, David Boyes wrote:
> 
> It's bothered me for some time that a basic infrastructure item like AFS is
> distributed in a way that bypasses the OS software management system on most
> platforms. 

Well, it's available as part of the normal software management system on (at 
least) Windows, Mac OS X, Debian, RedHat & Fedora, SuSe and Gentoo. I think 
OpenAFS is also available from the ports system on some of the BSDs. But still, 
it's definitely something that can be improved.

> I'll try to get around to send this (and the AIX installp stuff) upstream at
> some point in the future. Not a high priority for me at the moment.

Ultimately this is the key issue. Until it becomes a high priority for someone, 
and that person publishes the necessary configuration, this isn't going to 
improve. Equally critically, we need people to take responsibility for 
maintaining the packaging as releases occur.

Any volunteers?

Simon.

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