[OpenAFS] Re: Naming of "backup" and "up" commands

[Christof Hanke]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:19:07 +0200
Christof Hanke <christof.hanke@rzg.mpg.de> wrote:

> [added release-team] 
> 
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:42:55 -0500
> Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:51:40 -0700
> > Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > What would people think if I submitted a patch to OpenAFS to rename up
> > > to afs-up and backup to afs-backup?  Would that break a bunch of
> > > critical software?  It would be really nice to fix AFS's camping on
> > > obvious namespace.
> > 
> > Would it be appropriate to also have an optional compat package that
> > could symlink the original names?
> > 
> yes, I think so.
> Thing is, for SuSE I renamed scout to afs_scout.
> I'm not sure if RedHat/SL did some similar renaming 
> (probaly using yet another scheme for it)
> 

Actually I found on SL6:
/usr/bin/pagsh.openafs,
so we have now afs-* afs_* and *.openafs 
as renaming-schemes...

> So, on possible solution is to 
> fix the renaming on gerrit.
> Then the packagers can create their own compatibility packages for this, 
> since they are sure of the future binary-names.
> 
> 
> 
> > Either way, sure, makes sense to me. But the people that actually use
> > those commands really do need to say something, even if it's just "yes,
> > sounds good".
> > 
> 
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