Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-11-03 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 01:15 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Roman Shaposhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Besides the fact that I'm not making binary packages at all, splitted / small sources make packaging a lot easier. So let me get this straight: you're trying to solve a problem

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-11-03 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
[I believe we should go off-line if you're interested in continuing this discussion, since it has very little to do with plan9port at this point. I'll reply to the portion that has relevance on the list here, and will reply to the rest of your email privately] On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 01:15 +0100,

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-11-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roman V. Shaposhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to vote against feeding up p9p with more things, instead split it up into smaller pieces. Modern distros tend to have quite convenient package management

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-11-01 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Nov 1, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: I really fail to see what is your problem here. There's no rule that source code repository has to correspond 1-1 to the binary package. In fact, it is quite common to use a single repository for producing a number of different binary packages.

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'd like to vote against feeding up p9p with more things, instead split it up into smaller pieces. Modern distros tend to have quite convenient package management systems ;-p I've did a few steps in this direction (but due lack of time not finished yet :(). cu --

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-22 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:20 -0700, Russ Cox wrote: Hence the question -- would you be in favor of continue adding things as needed. And if so, what kind of of groundwork would you expect from the contributors? Usually it is as simple as adding it to your own tree, adapting the mkfile,

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-18 Thread Russ Cox
Hence the question -- would you be in favor of continue adding things as needed. And if so, what kind of of groundwork would you expect from the contributors? Usually it is as simple as adding it to your own tree, adapting the mkfile, and making it build. U9fs is somewhat special since it is

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-06 Thread Russ Cox
somehow it dawned on me that plan9port lacks an application to serve a local filesystem over 9P. Is this on purpose? Am I missing something fundamental that would allow for a moral equivalent of exportfs? I pull things in as they are needed. I have not needed to serve 9P. Adding u9fs sounds

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-06 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Russ Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Shaposhnik wrote: somehow it dawned on me that plan9port lacks an application to serve a local filesystem over 9P. Is this on purpose? I pull things in as they are needed. I have not needed to serve 9P. This reminds

Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-06 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
Hi Russ! First of all -- thanks a lot for answering. On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:24 -0700, Russ Cox wrote: somehow it dawned on me that plan9port lacks an application to serve a local filesystem over 9P. Is this on purpose? Am I missing something fundamental that would allow for a moral

[9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server

2008-10-04 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Guys, somehow it dawned on me that plan9port lacks an application to serve a local filesystem over 9P. Is this on purpose? Am I missing something fundamental that would allow for a moral equivalent of exportfs? The best I could come up with was to possibly use u9fs, but that begs a question --