[1531] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Changing sysname and/or ATHENA_SYS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sun Jan 11 23:07:36 1998
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:07:18 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: nathanw@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199801120139.UAA04014@road-runner.mit.edu> (nathanw@MIT.EDU)
OK, and now some cons:
- Since NetBSD is neither a supported platform, nor as popular as
Linux, it may be hard to get locker maintainers to play along.
- Locker maintainers traditionally have not done the right thing
with new @sys values anyway. Most lockers maintain one arch/@sys
dir per platform and symlink everything else.
While I agree that the AFS sysname should track the OS version, I
think that splitting the sysname and the ATHENA_SYS value would break
lots of things (again, particularly if it were only done under
NetBSD.)
1.2 is showing its age... we may want to just encourage people to
update to 1.3 and ignore these issues. (Although this will be harder
with 1.4 if it really does come out in the spring.)
-- Dan
