[OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS and RHEL5 Server 64-bit?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:37:43PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>>> http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/openafs/
>>>>
>>>> It contains support for all RHEL5/CentOS5 kernels ever released.
>>>
>>> It's worth noting that there are significant differences between the
>>> OpenAFS specfile, and that distributed by ATrpms.net - you are likely to
>>> find that paths, and configuration details, vary between these two builds.
>>
>> In fact, this is one of the issues with simply adopting these builds as
>> official.
>
> The packages at ATrpms try to stick to the FHS, which at least in Red
> Hat land is a bit of a holy grail.
>
> I wouldn't mind if someone adds a build time switch to leave that
> choice to the concerned user, e.g. something like

which won't help adopt builds (I agree with FHS in a general sense but 
there are migration issues, that's all another story)