On 14/06/10 19:09, Jack Neely wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:29:07PM +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2010, at 22:52, Derrick Brashear wrote: >>>> Does anyone know when the yum repository for Fodera 13 would come >>>> out? It >>>> looks like RPM fusion has openafs rpms available already. But I >>>> think I read >>>> somewhere before that they are not directly from openafs.org. >> >> Indeed, the RPM Fusion RPMs are not the same as the openafs.org ones. >> I've ranted on this subject to this list too many times before [1], but >> the summary is that the RPMFusion RPMS install things in such a way that >> you are likely to find much of the OpenAFS documentation misleading, and >> you are unlikely to be able to get community support as readily as when >> you use an OpenAFS build. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Simon. >> >> [1] - https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2010-March/033162.html > > I'll be glad to help out folks with the RPMFusion RPMs as I maintain > them. You're welcome to file a bug there: > > http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ > > Or email me or the list. > > My motivation for doing so are two fold. First, I needed OpenAFS > packages that conformed to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). > Secondly, the current OpenAFS packages use an older kmod standard for > supporting kernel modules in Fedora/RHEL, and I needed the more recent > kmod standard to integrate with the other kernel modules I deal with.
A couple days ago I tried them, the worst offenders for us were: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1274 https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275 Well, that and the fact that there are no man pages on the packages ... WTF? -- Angel Marin http://anmar.eu.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
