[OpenAFS-devel] Proposal for capabilities support in Unix client 1.4.x

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:44:50 -0400


Marc Dionne wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Ken Hornstein<kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>   
>>> I think that historically, head and 1.5.x have simply scared
>>> developers into using 1.4 as a base.  I recall a period of close to a
>>> year (maybe more) where head wouldn't even build on Linux when rxtcp
>>> was in there, and 1.5 was usually not that much better.
>>>       
>> rxtcp was always on a branch; if you selected that branch, you should have
>> known what you were getting in to.
>>
>> --Ken
>>     
>
> You're right that it wasn't rxtcp, I think it was
> bringing-rx-into-21st-century-20060504 which was later taken out of
> head with taking-rx-back-into-the-20th-century-20061228.
>
> My point was not the specific breakage (there were surely other things
> as well), but more the fact that at least on Linux, head was not
> buildable for quite a long time.
>   
Do the tinderbox test boxes help to alleviate this?

Thanks,
Jason