[fedfs-utils] [PATCH 0/2] Proposing fedfs-utils 0.9.3

[Chuck Lever]

On Aug 27, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com> wrote:

> I propose the third maintenance release of fedfs-utils 0.9 to
> improve distributions' ability to package fedfs-utils.
> 
> I'd like to see fedfs-utils 0.9, which uses the standards-based
> NSDB schema and DNS SRV record, in EL6-based distributions.
> Unfortunately, RHEL 6 does not package uriparser, which is used to
> construct and parse NFS URIs stored in NSDBs.  liburiparser is not
> even in the el6 branch of EPEL.
> 
> The dependency chain to get the uriparser packages into EPEL would
> take a while to address.  This fedfs-utils maintenance release
> provides a hand-coded alternative for distributions that lack
> liburiparser.
> 
> An upstream solution is required because changes are needed in the
> configure script, which cannot be regenerated on older distributions
> due to the script requiring autotools newer than version 2.64.
> 
> As this solution is a hack solely for EL6-based distributions which
> will never see fedfs-utils releases later than 0.9, I intend to
> exclude it from future major releases of fedfs-utils, unless there
> really is no alternative.
> 
> Review period ends midnight ET Tuesday, September 3, 2013.

These have been committed.

> 
> ---
> 
> Chuck Lever (2):
>      Make liburiparser optional
>      Release 0.9.3
> 
> 
> README                      |    2 
> configure.ac                |   12 ++-
> src/include/nsdb.h          |   11 +++
> src/libnsdb/administrator.c |   95 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/libnsdb/fileserver.c    |  175 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/libnsdb/path.c          |    5 +
> 6 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> Chuck Lever
> 
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Chuck Lever
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