On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > The AFS community isn't able to get aligned with the distros, for political > more than technical reasons. Because the openafs license "taints" the > Linux kernel, AFS will remain on the outside for the forseeable future, for > most of the Linux distros.
That's not what I was saying... they can continue to have their own repository, but they need to have the releases they produce, aligned with the key releases of the core distros, and have a yum/apt repo set up to support those distros. I'm not suggesting that OpenAFS be part OF the distros, I'm saying they need to work WITH those distros, to make an installable package available (including all required dependencies that align WITH those packages, matching the correct distro versions) which can be included as a third-party repository in a standard yum or apt config. Dozens and dozens of projects do exactly this today with conflicting/incompatible licenses (Skype, NoMachine, etc.). It just requires that someone start lining up with how the distros are moving, and make the packages work with _those_ distros, not as a source-built add-on that requires out-of-band hacking of packages, repositories or adding source-built packages to a distro which are impossible to track or remove cleanly (no upgrade path, no dependency management, etc.) _______________________________________________ EFS-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev
