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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:20:19 -0600
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        Tony Jago <tony@convoitec.com>, Alec Kloss <alec@setfilepointer.com>, "<freebsd-afs@freebsd.org>" <freebsd-afs@freebsd.org>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
Subject:   Re: OpenAFS port
Message-ID:  <20081213172019.GA96721@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <46367482@bb.ipt.ru>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:17:25PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 
> > Personally I thinks that is overly complicated. Installing a few
> > binaries that I don't use is not a big deal. Having three ports for a
> > server+client system is confusing, especially since it is not very
> > common practice. I'd vote for one single port, with rc switches to
> > activate the different parts.
> 
> Anyway we can't create packages since kernel sources and objs are
> needed. Then really it's worth having only one port. The default
> net/openafs installs both server and client. While OPENAFS_SERVER_ONLY
> and OPENAFS_CLIENT_ONLY do what they should.

I like the single-port idea the best, and use the OPENAFS_*_ONLY variables
to disable one half.  I agree with others that three ports is unnecessarily
complicated.  Unless there's really a technical reason to separate ports
that can't be worked around, I vote: one port.

Thank you for your efforts!

-- Rick C. Petty



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