Re: More autofs problems

[Lukas Kolbe <lukas@einfachkaffee.de>]

Hi!

> > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=autofs5&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> > > 
> > > So, I don't know how much effort it would be to backport them to glibc
> > > 2.3 instead of 2.7 and so on...
> > 
> > Jan Christoph Nordholz <hesso@pool.math.tu-berlin.de> (who is listed as
> > maintainer of the package) might be able to tell.
> 
> I don't think that it's very problematic to backport the autofs5 package to Etch.
> I'm working on it. (Thanks to Steffen for mailing me directly - I follow this
> mailinglist, but sometimes I lag behind a bit.)

I don't know if this has changed with the latest patches, but last time
I tried autofs5 used a symbol from openldap that was not in etch's
openldap (LDAP_CONTROL_PAGEDRESULTS), which could be fixed by patching
that symbol into the autofs-source, but since then it's crashing on us
every now and then. Sorry to be so vague, but I didn't have time to
debug the crash any further.

Other than that, autofs5 is order magnitudes better and more reliable
than 4 ever was. Seriously. 

> Regards,
> 
> Jan

-- 
Lukas