Re: autofs

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:58:17PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Yes, just a fix of my previous QA upload. I'm aware of your
> current activities. Eventually, I'll post patches or comments on BTS. I have
> a working NIS environment here, just if you need a testbed or something.

If you could test and verify the patch for #278229, that would be very good.

> BTW, i did try to subscribe the autofs devel list, without results.
> I think communicating a few patches and comments upstream is mandatory
> for autofs...

Yes, indeed. I don't even know the upstream distribution site (nor how to
subscribe to the list); do you know where it is? :-)

> Also, if i had time, I would start experiments with autofs-ng which 
> is potentially a complete rewrote and improvement of current
> kernel and user space tools.

I think I'll leave that for somebody else; my primary intention now is to
clean up the bug list a bit and make sure autofs is in a releasable state for
sarge (which I guess it is, after you fixed all the RC bugs :-) ).

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