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Re: 2.4.18 update details
Nathan Scott [nathans@sgi.com] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:13:01AM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> > Nathan Scott writes:
> > >
> > > There are no Debian ACL packages at the moment. I'll have to
> > > discuss this with the people involved first to see what comes
> > > of it. For now, you will have to build ACL from source. The
> > > rest of our userspace packages are all still Debian-ized.
> >
> > I noticed that the Debian control file and installation scripts were
> > included in the CVS source, but don't appear to have been updated
> > recently.
> >
>
> I usually only update the Debian packaging stuff just prior to
> uploading to the Debian incoming directory. Since ACL has not
> ever been uploaded, it probably would have had bit rot at times.
> That (acl) situation will likely change now that syscalls exist.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
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.
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.
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