[OpenAFS] replacement for depot?

[Brandon Allbery]

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>wrote:

> I'm using a program called "depot", which I think used to be included with
> IBM/Transarc AFS. I'm planning to migrated from RHEL5 with cfengine to
> RHEL6 with puppet. I use depot to manage  many folders of symlinks. What
> would you recommend as a replacement to depot?
>

Carnegie Mellon still uses depot, fwiw.  GNU stow is a less AFS-specific
version of the same idea (and yes, it explicitly acknowledges depot as its
inspiration, or at least used to).

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b@gmail.com
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