On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Chad William Seys wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > The current openafs versions in wheezy and jessie do not support the use > > of regexps for volume names. (That is, they do not include the change you > > see mentioned in the 1.6.14-1 changelog.) > > Thanks for clarifying. I was unaware that the regexp functionality was added > after 1.6.9.
Hmm, I am no longer sure that I have actually clarified :( > I was thinking -prefix, -exclude, and -xprefix options were what was meant by > the 'regexp' in the changelog for 1.6.14. Er, options to what programs? The only case I know of where sites have actually reported regressions in functionality due to taking the security patches from the upstream 1.6.13 release (that is, 1.6.1-3+deb7u3, 1.6.9-2+deb8u3, or 1.6.13-1 -- those patches have not made it to wheezy-backports or any form of squeeze-lts yet) is at sites using the OpenAFS builtin backup suite -- that is, the actual backup(8) command. That command suite has the functionality to specify a "volume set" to backup, and the volume set can use a regex to match a subset of volumes by name. Because of the way the code is structured (as a remote procedure call), it is possible that there are other affected use cases, but we don't know of any at this time. > > Are you encountering issues on a wheezy and/or jessie system while > > attempting to use this functionality? > > No. But I was worried that if I updated to the newer 1.6.1 and 1.6.9 I would > lose functionality, due to my confusion as explained above. It would be nice if you could try upgrading a system or two to test, so that I know whether to close this bug or take action on it. Reinstalling the old version of the package should work fine to downgrade, if you need to revert due to breakage. -Ben
