Peter M. Metcalf wrote:
Derek,
Well, so far I have contacted the list about 3 times and I've yet to
come up with that warm and fuzzy feeling you get when a "mentor" takes
you into his confidence and helps you over a problem.
Where I understand how busy you must be there at MIT, we here at ND do
little side jobs like repair things and solve problems for our Faculty
when they are busy and stumped with those little things they do to teach.
So, first thing I want you to know that I have put your 10 year old
picture on my site so all the world will know the man that made AFS
work after IBM gave up. Your the man!
...
http://ndpete.com
<http://ndpete.com/>
Today's business with the list was pretty much what everybody else
needs help with...AFS. I realize that you don't control RedHat (as
far as I know) and the Fedora group who by the way has come out with
an upgrade.
It would seem to me, that since this rpmbuild....and configure
this...make that...is so second nature to the group that when one of
us (USERS) who may not spend all of their time writing software ask a
"dumb" question like....how do I now add AFS to my new FC5 install,
one of you would take the time out of your busy days making things
better to simply compile, if that is the correct term, the necessary
SRPM that we all need to move forward in this world of AFS.
I know after my question this morning that I then spent most of the
day trying to "build" a version that would plug into my NEW fedora
core 5 machine. I have 3 others still running FC4 and they will go
untouched until I can buy one of you whatever it is you hope to get
out of this as a reward for being the "good guy" we all hope we will
know someday before we croak.
You see what a little supper, a cold beer and a laptop can make a guy
do that has managed to accomplish very little in a day that we here at
ND think is a brand new "Y2K" weekend coming up for our campus. You
see, we are going to celebrate the coming of Daylight Savings Time for
the first time in the last maybe 30 years. A busy weekend for our OIT
guys as they will be standing by on Sunday when the time changes.
Surely you wish you could be here this weekend!
Pete
Sounds like a good reason to build from src. ;-) RPMS are nice but
usually take more than a week to arrive. Maybe I missed something but
honestly this whole posting seems awful *&%5^ nasty to me.
If you were paying big dollars for this software you would never even be
allowed to communicate with its developers .. you would just be told to
stand over in the corner and wait. :-)
/sd
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Steve Devine
Storage Systems
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Michigan State University
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