[OpenAFS-devel] Re: openafs rpm patches

[Christopher Allen Wing]

Alexander:

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the feedback.


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Alexander Bergolth wrote:

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> Hi!
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> Thanks for your openafs RPM! It works very well for me except for a few
> issues:
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> *) The killafs script has a serious bug: If /afs is not mounted,
> fuser -km /afs will kill all processes that have open files in the
> _root_ filesystem!


Wow, that's a mistake. Fortunately this wouldn't hit the usual case, where 
someone does:

 	/etc/init.d/afs stop

more than once; the init script won't do anything the second time.


> *) I'm using it on FC3 so a few fixes to openafs-bestmod were necessary
> to accept the FC3 kernel naming scheme.

I'll take a look at your patch and try to merge it, if things can be made 
to work with both the Fedora and RHEL naming conventions.

> *) I removed the BuildRequires: kernel-hugemem-devel because FC3 doesn't
> have a hugemem kernel.
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> *) The Copyright: tag in the spec-file should be replaced by License:

Thanks.


-Chris
wingc@engin.umich.edu