tech-pkg: Re: net/coda{,5}_* packages

Subject: Re: net/coda{,5}_* packages
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/12/2004 09:08:48

There are two problems with cruft in the pkgsrc coda world:
1) Coda documentation itself is crufty. The current cvs doesn't have
 man pages with the programs, and there is some other way to get man
 pages, and I believe they are not up to date.
2) Coda 5 is old and abandoned, and version 6 is where active
 use/development is. 6 has 'realms' support, so a client can access
 different administrative groups of servers.
 The kernel support in -current has been updated for this (file ids
 have an additional 32-bit realm tag). There is a patch for
 netbsd-1-6 that I'm running; it's on the coda website or ask me.
 Version 6 is GPL. Version 5 has some cmu/afs/ibm type license. So
 there is some notion that some people may want to stay with 5.
I use coda (to store files that I care about), and I am running
version 6 from coda cvs.
I think that what should happen is:
 add coda6 pkgsrc entries, and update rpc2/lwp/rvm
 remove all the coda4/coda5 entries.
 perhaps commit the 'realms patch' into netbsd-1-6. This changes the
 ABI, but if coda5 is declared crufty and there are coda6 pkgsrc
 entries, I think the users would be better served than by
 maintaining compatibility.
-- 
 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>