On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:46:58PM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote:
>
> I for one would love to try to help with the Debian packages. At this
> point, I have deployed 5 servers that use Debian, XFS, and the CVS
> Debian ACL packages.
>
> Source is really not going to cut it, I expect to have additional servers
> in the pipe soon, and .deb makes it easy, supportable, scalable.
>
> Now call me stupid, but I could do my own packages, and just submit patches
> but would that be counter productive? Or am just insecure about my L33t
> developer skills. :)
>
> Personally; I think that the ACL packages should be uploaded to Debian
> proper, with some sort of dependency on the XFS kernel patches. Does that
> work? To be honest, I am not sure it does, but I hope so. :/
>
> All else failing, having CVS/Deb support to the new ACL tools.
>
Since the attr and acl packages are so similar, I may as well
just do this and prevent all the questions. It should appear
in CVS later today, and the Debian upload should happen later
in the week - along with the other v2 packages, before anyone
asks about that. ;-)
> The point is really, XFS and it's support for ACL's is really a amazing,
> wonderful thing, and I am grateful, and want to help.
cheers.
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Nathan
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