On 09/13/2012 05:27 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Autofs in SL 6.3 has some problems with mounting NFSv4 filesystems. 
> These problems are also present in the TUVs packages, so this is not 
> specific to SL. The details are in this bug report:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834641
>
> There are some updated packages here:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/~ikent/autofs-5.0.5-55.el6
>
> which it seems like are probably not going to make it out until TUV 
> 6.4 release.
>
> I wonder if SL should consider making these updates available 
> somewhere (eg. the rolling tree or fastbugs or somesuch) - I realize 
> this flies in the face of the principle of sticking as close as 
> possible to TUV. Anyway, just wanted to raise awareness of the issue 
> if nothing else.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan.

Hi Jonathan,

We don't typically package pre-release rpms from upstream.  I appreciate 
the notification on the problem, as I'm sure others do as well.  
Information is always good.

I've added myself to the CC list on the bug to keep an eye on this 
package's progress.

Pat

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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer