[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Thinking about 1.6

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:29:28 -0500


--On Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:24:10 PM +0000 Simon Wilkinson 
<sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 16 Dec 2009, at 23:03, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>
>> How do you propose to automate that, given that the existing
>> configuration could provide arbitrary arguments or even use
>> arbitrary binaries for the various fs bnode commands?
>
> If you're using my package, you'd better be using my binaries. If you've
> changed things behind rpm's back, then you pretty much deserve what you
> get - that's true of many, many RPMs.

Configuration of the bosserver does not belong to your package, and is 
legitimate for me to change.  For example, instead of running the salvager 
directly, I might run a wrapper that arranges for salvager logs to be dated 
(we did this for years before -datelogs appeared).