[OpenAFS] 1.1.0 client on RH 7.1

[Derek Atkins]

Rudolph T Maceyko <rtm@cert.org> writes:

> Who says RPMs are not for system-wide network-based distribution?  Of 
> course they are!  That's the way we're using them.  That's the way Red 
> Hat distributes them too.

RPMs are meant to install a workstation.  You install a machine by
installing a bunch of RPMs on the machine.  They are not meant for you
to install a bunch of RPMS onto a server partition and then copy that
partition out to your clients.

> Also, we use RPMs as individual software units we can keep track of to 
> maintain the overall mix of software to be installed on any given 
> system.  We use RPM to install ALL software on the system.  That means 
> we make our own RPMS for local stuff, and sometimes we have to provide 
> our own RPMs to replace what Red Hat provides.

Right, for each client you maintain, you install a bunch of RPMS.  You
don't install the RPMS on one machine and then 'dd' or 'tar' the
filesystem out, right?  You let RPM keep track of the files on each
client machine.

AFS should fit in just with that.  What's the point of /usr/afsws in a
Red Hat (Debian, Mandrake, SuSE) world?  Most users wouldn't know or
care.  So, files get installed where a normal user of Linux would
expect to find them (at least in most cases).

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available