Chaskiel Grundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: openafs-client
> Version: 1.4.7.dfsg1-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Right now, the openafs-client package includes a CellServDB in
> /usr/share that is only copied to /etc/openafs/CellServDB when the
> latter doesn't already exist. I'd really like it to do better than that.
>
> The macos packaging includes something I wrote that merges CellServDB
> updates into a possibly user-modified copy (it does this by 
> keeping a copy of the previous master CellServDB, and any cells that 
> are the same in the old master and the active CellServDB are allowed to 
> be updated to what is in the new master).

That sounds like a reasonable enhancement.  My main concern is that cells
that have been deleted locally should not be re-added by package upgrades,
which that would preserve.

The right solution is probably for everyone to use AFSDB DNS records.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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