Re: openafs in etchnhalf

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Author: Russ Allbery
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To: dann frazier
CC: Rainer Dorsch, debian-kernel, debian-release, hartmans, project-etchnahalf, daniel
Subject: Re: openafs in etchnhalf
dann frazier <dannf@???> writes:

> If I understand this correctly, that would mean that etch users would
> be forced to move to the new module code, right?. I don't doubt that
> it would work just fine, but objective #1 is to minimize risk to
> existing etch users.


Yes, that's true.

>> Alternately, we could provide an openafs-modules-source-etchnhalf
>> package that conflicts and replaces openafs-modules-source, although
>> that seems a little weird to me.


> Why would it need to conflict replace? Could they install into
> separate locations?


All that's in the package is a tarball in /usr/src (it's the standard
module build pattern). If it were called something other than
openafs.tar.gz or expanded into a different directory, wouldn't that
confuse tools like module-assistant?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@???)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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