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Re: OpenAFS modules metapackages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Fri Jun 20 10:43:44 2008
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:42:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> The script is wrapped in a for loop and could be trivially changed to
> generate modules for server and xen as well as generic, but I wasn't
> sure if that was a good idea.
I think at least 5 machines are using our modules with -server; I'm not
aware of any using them on -xen at the moment, but it seems harmless to
build them.
> I don't think we can depend on this in debathena-clients since that
> would be forcing all debathena-clients machines to use the -generic
You mean debathena-locker, not debathena-clients.
> kernel. The best integration point is perhaps the installer, although
> that doesn't help existing machines. Anyway, I'm going to give people
> a chance to review this before making further steps.
I think integrating the installer is probably the right place. For
existing machines, I'm afraid we may have to convince users to install the
right one.
-Tim Abbott
