[OpenAFS-devel] DRAFT: New sysname standard

[Derek Atkins]

Jeremy Katz <katzj@linuxpower.org> writes:

> Unfortunately, all of these are somewhat nitemare-ish as far as
> maintaining a set of symlinks in afs for binaries are concerned.  In a
> lot of ways, it almost seems as though there needs to be a mechanism to
> have a "canonical" sysname which could be i386_linux24_glibc22 or
> whatnot, but also be able to have some sort of table of compatible
> sysnames to try if there isn't the one you're looking for.  But I
> haven't gone to see how non-trivial that would be to do yet and I'm
> guessing it wouldn't be pretty :(
> 
> Jeremy

You can certainly make a user-space 'program' that will take a list
of 'compatible' sysnames and try them all.

-derek

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