[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS CVS Commit: openafs/src/config by shadow

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 29 Mar 2001, Sam Hartman wrote:

> >>>>> "Derrick" == Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> 
> 
>     Derrick> Old platforms are considered "grandfathered" and no
>     Derrick> default change will be applied to them.
> 
> 
> Do we really want to have granularity of 2.2.16 in the port name?  It
> seems that a reasonable port that works on 2.2.16 is also likely to
> work on 2.2.17
> 
> I'm concerned about proliferation of files in config.  There is
> already way too much data duplicated among Linux config/param files.

The idea was that this would happen concurrent with autoconf and fix that
problem. Sadly the autoconf effort is not yet that advanced.

-D