Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-07 Thread Jack Neely
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 06:45:37PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:57:35 -0500 > Jack Neely wrote: > > it looks like the proper thing to do is include these > > static libraries in the -devel sub-package and have that > > sub-package provide openafs-static. > > > > Secondly, ma

Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-05 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:57:35 -0500 Jack Neely wrote: > it looks like the proper thing to do is include these > static libraries in the -devel sub-package and have that > sub-package provide openafs-static. > > Secondly, many more experienced AFS administrators prefer > the old Transarc style paths

Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/04/2011 06:28 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Because this "transarc style" doesn't comply to the FHS. I think FHS is a good thing to have. Several packages have exceptions, They don't have an exception, they are broken rsp. certain people

Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-04 Thread Jack Neely
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:28:44AM -0700, Ken Dreyer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > Because this "transarc style" doesn't comply to the FHS. > > I think FHS is a good thing to have. Several packages have exceptions, > eg. krb5-workstation > > $ rpm -ql krb

Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-04 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Because this "transarc style" doesn't comply to the FHS. I think FHS is a good thing to have. Several packages have exceptions, eg. krb5-workstation $ rpm -ql krb5-workstation /usr/kerberos /usr/kerberos/bin /usr/kerberos/bin/k5srvutil /u

Re: OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/04/2011 04:57 PM, Jack Neely wrote: Secondly, many more experienced AFS administrators prefer the old Transarc style paths over the FHS paths that my packages use. I would like to create an openafs-transarc sub-package that includes the symlinks that would enable these non-standard paths.

OpenAFS and Static Libraries

2011-03-04 Thread Jack Neely
Folks, I have two quandaries about my OpenAFS packages. Both of which are a bit problematic when trying to conform to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines. OpenAFS has a slew of static libraries that are part of upstream's packages and used for just about anything that uses OpenAFS's C API, such as t