Russ,

I would like to hear from sites that actively use these commands.

That said my personal opinion is that they should be renamed in the next
major release.  (Not 1.6.x).

I have no objection to separate packaging.

Jeffrey Altman


On 9/22/2013 8:51 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> In the Debian packaging for OpenAFS, I've renamed the "up" command to
> "afs-up" for years now.  There's now also a conflict with the "backup"
> command (which is a horrible name for a command), and I'm rather tempted
> to do the same thing, but since it's a whole command suite with multiple
> documentation pages and cross-references, it's more of an undertaking.
> 
> What would people think if I submitted a patch to OpenAFS to rename up to
> afs-up and backup to afs-backup?  Would that break a bunch of critical
> software?  It would be really nice to fix AFS's camping on obvious
> namespace.
> 
> Failing that, I'm probably going to split butc, backup, and fms into a
> separate package to make it easier for other packages to conflict with it
> due to the poorly-chosen command name instead of conflicting with all of
> openafs-client.
> 

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