[OpenAFS-devel] Re: pagsh in krbafs vs openafs

[Jason Edgecombe]

Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:34:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>     
>>> Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net> writes:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> should /usr/bin/pagsh and /usr/share/man/man1/pagsh.1.gz from
>>>> openafs-client be renamed so they don't clash with krbafs-utils on
>>>> Fedora/RHEL?
>>>>         
>>> You should stop using krbafs-utils and switch to Kerberos v5.
>>>       
>> That is out of my hands, this is a package that is shipped on Fedora
>> and RHEL proper and any user can install it. Whether it is sane or not
>> is another question, but asking Red Hat to remove this to fix the
>> above will not work, espcially not from released distributions.
>>
>> (FWIW it's not on RHEL5 anymore, but still on F7, F8 and of course the
>> elder distros)
>>     
>
> I agree.  Its not our responsibility to rename our commands after 20
> years because a vendor decided to package up conflicting functionality
> and make it available to their end users.
>
> Doing so would only further confuse our user base.
>
>
>   
what about putting a "conflicts" or "obsoletes" rpm field in there?

Is there anything that krbafs-utils provides that openafs+krb5 doesn't

Sincerely,
Jason