[OpenAFS] replacement for depot?

Andy Cobaugh phalenor@gmail.com
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:42:40 -0400 (EDT)


On 2012-09-26 at 18:20, Jason Edgecombe ( jason@rampaginggeek.com ) said:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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?
>
> FYI, the fsi_generate commands is used to generate a depot.image file that 
> the depot command uses to build the symlink farm.

I've used GNU stow with some wrapper scripts for volume creation, 
replication, mounting, permissions, etc, to manage software installation 
into AFS.

--andy