[OpenAFS-port-darwin] anyone want to work on the installer?

[David Botsch]

I'm willing to modify my gui config utility to do something like that 
with the options (at present, it just presents a box where one types in 
the options and that text is copied into the afsd.options file).

I can see two scenarios, actually:
1. put each option in with a check to enable or disable (and a box 
afterwards to specify things like -volumes 70 or whatever)
2. have basically 3 checkboxes
	a. desktop use
	b. laptop use
	c. dynamic root

the difference between a and b being the use of -nomount

I would also argue the startup script should be modified for laptops 
(we do this here) so that afs always starts regardless of whether or 
not the network is up. With -nomount, afs won't freeze the computer 
upon login. And, once a valid network connection is setup, a user can 
just run the commandline or gui MountAFS (gui available from our 
website ... and the gui does work under Jaguar and Panther) to get to 
afs (plus use the gui to get afs tokens - also works under jaguar and 
panther). 

On 2004.08.09 01:41 Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
>> so, the installer should set your (client) cellname instead of 
>> assuming you'll do it afterward. i have a simple cocoa app which 
>> does so and could be run from a postflight script. however, it's too 
>> simple. it should validate that a cell exists before letting you set 
>> it. anyone want to flesh it out and add a postflight script?
>> 
>> if you're really bored, you could let afsd options be selected (i 
>> can give you a meaningful list if you need one) and let the user add 
>> extra cells to cellservdb at client install time.
> 
> At this point this change won't make the 1.3.70 release, but I'm 
> hoping someone will run with it before 1.4 is released.
> 
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