[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Large partition (>2TB) support

[Ben Howell]

What is the likelihood in the future that 1.6.2 (or just the applied 
patch update) will be available in Wheezy and/or backports? Are we 
talking months or years? I don't think building from source will be an 
issue, but having it in the repo would definitely help in the future.

On 8/22/12 1:23 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Howell <howellbp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> So if we stay with squeeze, our only option is to build from source with
>> the necessary patch in place?
> I'm afraid so.  Only packages that are in wheezy are eligible for
> backports.debian.org, and wheezy has a stock 1.6.1.  The patch hasn't been
> in any released version of OpenAFS, and I haven't updated any of the
> packaging since the 1.6.1 release.
>