[OpenAFS] additional OpenAFS 1.6.9 binaries available

[Dave Botsch]

At the very least, I'd like to see a spec included in the source so
that one can rebuild on one's own the binaries from the source (on at
least the base RHEL and current Fedora).

IMHO, not offering binaries and telling users to go someplace else is
not perceived as friendly to the users... UNLESS.. there is a direct
pointer to said trusted 3rd party binary builder. Especially if binaries
are available for Mac and Windows... it comes off as a "screw you" to
linux users.



On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:32:56PM +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> 
> On Jun 18, 2014, at 20:07 , Jonathan Billings wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Note that there are no RHEL7 binaries. The release team feels that we
> >> should
> >> not continue to provide packages using the old transarc paths for new Linux
> >> platforms, and that we should leave packaging for those to downstream
> >> projects
> >> rather than creating FHS compliant packages ourselves. This would mean that
> >> we'd no longer provide any binaries for RHEL7+ and Fedora 21+.
> >> 
> > 
> > Do we want to continue development of the RPM spec file in the OpenAFS git
> > tree?  Split off a RHEL7/Fedora version?
> 
> 
> Interesting question. My personal opinion is that if we do it at all, yes
> we should forge a new spec for RHEL 7+ and Fedora 21+ which does away with
> all the legacy. And that it would bitrot quickly unless we actually use it.
> And that maintaining the spec is the bigger problem than providing the
> builds.
> 
> Thus, probably: "No."
> 
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