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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, David Botsch wrote:

> 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

actually, an "advanced" tab letting you optimize it (sending you to 1) or 
letting people use the simple method (2) might be cool, but i don't know 
how much work that is.

> 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.

I have no meaningful comment here, but,

> 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).

In this case I think I'd rather install something which notices the 
network is up or down and deals accordingly. I just haven't figured out 
how to get notification of such yet... mostly due to not having time to 
look.