On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Dave Botsch <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi, Jeff.
>
> We can certainly move the pref pane portion over to openafs-info.
>
> See below...
>
>
> > The OSX client has a couple of huge holes in it at the moment:
> >
> > 1. The packaging is no longer current for Xcode that supports
> >    Mavericks or Yosemite.
> >
>
> Can you clarify what you mean? As far as I know, the only thing required
> to build is an old packagebuilder script.
>

Can't sign it. Only flat packages can be signed


>
> > 2. Parts of the pref pane functionality no longer work because
> >    of changes in Mavericks and Yosemite.
> >
>
> The preference pane, to my knowledge, has never worked for cross realm
> authentication. So, that also needs to be fixed to call it "working".
>
>
For you. Most users don't care.


> > 3. There is no support for Bulk Status RPCs which cause the
> >    OSX client (especially when used through Finder) to be
> >    extremely slow when evaluating directories with large
> >    numbers of entries over high latency links.
> >
> >    This same lack of support for Bulk Status RPCs also triggers
> >    the file server throttling of clients when many of the objects
> >    in the directory are unreadable by the user.
>
> Interesting. What would you consider "large numbers" out of curiosity?
> Is there a plan to fix this?
>
> I know how it could be fixed. I have no time to work on it currently.
I certainly would welcome the change.


> >
> > 4. There is no support for PAGs.
> >
>
> Always been that way. PAGs have their plusses and minuses (on our SunRay
> linux systems, I've actually disabled PAGs since certain processes get
> stuck in PAGs without authN).
>
>
It would be possible to do but there is limited benefit.


> > 5. Code signing for the installer, the userland binaries and
> >    the kernel extension are necessary for improved firewall
> >    access and installation behavior.
>
> Yeah, this sucks. It is workable aroundable pretty easily, but not
> something we want the end user to have to do.
>
> >
> > Of these, the easiest to address is fixing the Preference Pane.
> >
>
> Is there a plan in place to fix this? It'd be nice to have this fully
> working :)
>
>
> None that I am aware of.


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D

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