[OpenAFS-devel] No installation instructions for OpenAFS on web site

[Derek Atkins]

Erik Burckart <erik@burckart.org> writes:

> Whoever made the rpms decided to change the old afs conventions and put bos
> in the more standards compliant spot, /usr/bin.  Do an `rpm -qlp
> openafs*.rpm |grep bos` on the packages to find the bos file.

That would be me. :) And yes, I am trying to move away from the
Transarc conventions and make the OpenAFS RPMS more Linux-friendly
(and standardized).  In the end, I'd like Red Hat to ship AFS
themselves, so I was trying to work towards that.  Debian doesn't even
_have_ /usr/afs!  Be happy I at least kept that!

> IMHO, the more proper way would have been to put bos in /usr/afs/bin and a
> symlink in /usr/bin.

No.  The programs should live in /usr/bin.  If a symlink should exist
at all (and I'm not convinced it should, since /usr is in your path!)
then if should point _from_ /usr/afs/bin -> /usr/bin.

But I have no plans to actually support such symlinks.  They shouldn't
be necessary, because you can just run "bos", "vos", "kas", etc. and
it should just work (because, as I said, the locations should be in
your standard path).

> -E

-derek
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