[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] autofs: new package

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Yonatan,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 08:00:32AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, Baruch Siach wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 03:48:20PM +0200, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> >>+config BR2_PACKAGE_AUTOFS
> >>+	bool "autofs"
> >>+	select BR2_PACKAGE_NFS_UTILS # runtime
> >>+	select BR2_PACKAGE_RPCBIND # runtime
> >>+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # rpcbind
> >>+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # nfs-utils, rpcbind
> >>+	help
> >>+	  Based on the Debian autofs package description:
> >>+	  Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount
> >>+	  daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount
> >>+	  them after a period of inactivity based on a set of pre-configured
> >>+	  maps defined by default in /etc/auto.master. The kernel automounter
> >>+	  implements SunOS style automounter under Linux and requires a kernel
> >>+	  version of at least 2.6.17 and the autofs4 kernel module.
> >>+
> >>+	  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/autofs/autofs.git
> >
> >The browser friendly link
> >https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/storage/autofs/autofs.git/ would be better
> >here, I believe.
> 
> Why? I always struggle to convert back from the browser URLs to plain git
> URL's so that I can see the sources in vi on my machine and index them. Why
> would anyone want to use an HTML browser to do this? Doesn't make sense.

Well, we usually put a link to the project homepage. In the absence of a 
suitable homepage, we use a git repo link. You can find a git/vi friendly link 
if you scroll down the git repo summary page. Converting the other way seems 
to me quite a bit harder for the less git/vi literate.

baruch

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