[elrepo-devel] OpenAFS

[Jack Neely]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:41:15AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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?
> 

Being the maintainer of these packages isn't a problem.  Just let me
know how to get things done.

Jack

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