[elrepo-devel] OpenAFS

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jack Neely <jjneely at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'd like to contribute my OpenAFS packages to ELRepo.  OpenAFS is a
> network file system that offers "federated file sharing and replicated
> read-only content distribution, providing location independence,
> scalability, security, and transparent migration capabilities."  Its
> used by many universities and at, at least, one large banking
> institution.
>
> I've built the following packages using the kmodspec and kmodtool
> templates from the website.  These are the same packages I'm using
> currently in my RHEL 6 deployment.
>
> SRPMS:
>
>    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/SRPMS/openafs-1.4.14-1.el6.src.rpm
>    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/SRPMS/openafs-kmod-1.4.14-1.el6.src.rpm
>
> SPCES:
>
>    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/SPECS/openafs-1.4.14-1.el6.spec
>    http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/SPECS/openafs-kmod-1.4.14-1.el6.spec
>
> I don't currently use ELRepo style packages for RHEL 5, but if the above
> are acceptable I'd be glad to build those as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack Neely

Hi Jack,

Thanks for your offer to contribute openafs. It is definitely
something that will be useful to RHEL (and its clones) users. I know
Scientific Linux has been offering it for some time.

Now, I believe that none of us ELRepo team members are using (or
familiar with) openafs -- please correct me if I'm wrong.  So, it is
important that we have someone, or a group of people, who can
maintain, troubleshoot, and provide some form of support. Do you think
you can act as a maintainer of the ELRepo openafs packages?  Or is
there anyone on this list who can volunteer to help?

Akemi