On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 20:37 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:27:27 -0400
> Stephen Joyce <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > In any case, OpenAFS is not the only project which must decide how to
> > move forward in this scenario. It might be instructive to see how
> > macports, homebrew, etc. respond.
> 
> Those won't involve kexts (if they even use Apple's signing framework at
> all? Installing a package via macports doesn't go through the OS X
> packaging system). I would imagine there are not many software projects
> that provide kexts on OS X that are signed by a non-commercial entity,
> but have commercial organizations related to them.

In fact there are several MacPorts ports that install kexts, notably
(and rather commonly) osxfuse. We're only just starting to look at
possible solutions, but the fact that ports are usually built locally
for both MacPorts and Homebrew introduces complications that OpenAFS
won't face.

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