Troy Dawson wrote:
> Howdy,
> Has anyone gotten an openafs src.rpm for openafs 1.3.79. 

Not yet... but I'm looking at it today.
.. so we'll see soon how it worked out.

On the same subject:

- the wget check shall be really removed : it hurts people
   (in case sbdy has 7000/tcp closed on firewall for
    example: as we do at CERN..)
  - in addition this does not check for:
       - that replying server is AFS server
       - that replying server is AFS DB server

    working check would be:

       /usr/sbin/rxdebug $SERVER -port 7002 -version 2>&1 > /dev/null
       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
         echo "OK!"
       fi

    (yes we've tried on 7000 before: but 7000 is only
     afs3-fileserver: AFS DB servers do not need to run it
   , but they must run afs3-prserver on 7002)


- the -dynroot shall really be disabled in default
    package: it also breaks things for people

    (yes, I know theres SL_afs_nodynroot package:
     but I would REALLY prefer if dynroot is disabled
     by default and then a SL_afs_dynroot package is
     provided for those who need it...)

   Side note: we on CERN site avoid as much as we can
   propagating such config changes via RPMS: we rather
   use our own config mechanism based on Quattor
   (http://quattor.cern.ch) to propagate changes.
   [the RPM containing 'profile' for the machine -
    which is site dependent - is updated regularily
    and it runs configuration components to perform
    changes when needed].

   this way framework and component packages
   are not updated (unless improved/bug-fixed): only
   a single profile package gets updated (once per month
   or even less frequently in our case)


I would be happy to discuss details of this solution
if anybody is interested ..

Cheers

Jarek

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