[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Linux AFS server/client configuration tools (now supports Kerberos 5)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Jeremy Stribling wrote:

> Currently the tools only support configuration of OpenAFS with the
> transarc paths scheme.  Is there any interest in having it support
> non-transarc paths?  The existing RH RPMs only support transarc paths,
> so I'm not sure it would be beneficial for the tools to support
> something the other RPMs do not.  Please let me know your thoughts on
> this issue. Thanks.

To this vein I've been toying with how we could install a openafs-config
program not unlike modern krb5, gnome and such, which would allow some
stuff to be discovered, but there's a catch 22. If I give you a
transarc-style dest tree, where will it live? Traditionally /usr/afsws,
but nothing in the binaries themselves requires that. 

And even assuming we get something like this, it's not necessarily useful
for a case like the above, which is also useful to solve. The only
question is how.