On Jul 9, 2014, at 19:21 , Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 7, 2014, at 20:25 , Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 
>>> Speaking as a person from ELRepo... I think it's a great idea to
>>> combine the efforts. However, at this point in time, I'm not sure if
>>> our (ELRepo's) OpenAFS maintainer has the time for EL7. I need to ask
>>> him.
>> 
>> Combining the efforts would be great. I'm not even sure you actually have
>> a maintainer for your OpenAFS packages right now though ;-)
>> 
>> And there's a major obstacle: The OpenAFS developers and experts are quite
>> violently opposed to using "kabi-tracking kmods" with OpenAFS. In fact,
>> they'd make it impossible if they could. And these kmods are actually known to
>> have been broken due to kernel changes between EL minor releases. Luckily, in
>> a way that won't silently corrupt data at least on our SL6 clients. What we're
>> doing on SL6 now (modified scripting to reuse a module for kernels
>> corresponding to the same minor EL release only) is a compromise I consider
>> just about acceptable. The plain weak-updates ELRepo is using isn't.
>> 
>> Would ELRepo accept any other way of packaging the OpenAFS kernel module?
>> 
>> My proposal above would really just make coexistence of different SL and
>> ELRepo (and other) packaging for OpenAFS more peaceful and easier to handle
>> for users. If we can achieve more, that would indeed be great.
> 
> The maintainer of OpenAFS changed his job and no longer has the same
> free time as he used to. In fact I have not hear back from him. At
> this point, it looks as if you'd be the only person who can continue
> doing the work for OpenAFS.


There's actually another person within the OpenAFS project considering to step
up as a maintainer of the ELRepo packages. But I believe this will also depend
on the kernel module handling. So the answer to that question is really the key.

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Stephan Wiesand
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