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. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany