[SSSD] Fwd: F21 Self Contained Change: Add amd map parser to autofs

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 15:06:00 UTC 2014


Is there any impact on SSSD autofs integration with this proposed change?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	F21 Self Contained Change: Add amd map parser to autofs
Date: 	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:48:42 +0100
From: 	Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
Reply-To: 	devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
Organization: 	Red Hat, Inc.
To: 	devel-announce at lists.fedoraproject.org



= Proposed Self Contained Change: Add amd map parser to autofs =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Add_amd_map_parser_to_autofs

Change owner(s): Ian Kent<raven at themaw.net>

The am-utils package provides automount services for automount maps that use
an amd format. However, the am-utils project has not been actively maintained
for quite a while now.

The am-utils package in Fedora has significant problems that are not easily
resolved so an amd format parser is to be added to the autofs package.

== Detailed Description ==
The am-utils package provides automount services for automount maps that use
an amd format. Unfortunately the am-utils project has not been actively
maintained for quite a while now.

The am-utils package in Fedora has significant problems that are not easily
resolved so an amd format parser is to be added to the autofs package.

The goal is to implement enough of the am-utils amd map parsing functionality
to cover a large portion of the use cases provided by the am-utils package.
Once this is done it will be up to users to describe the missing am-utils
feature they need which will then be considered for addition in the upstream
implementation.

== Scope ==
The implementation of this functionality is restricted to the autofs package.

Some areas of this change will require changes to code common to the autofs
parser and the amd parser and the amd parser will leverage existing autofs
functionality but there is a high level of code separation because of the way
parse modules are added to autofs.

Initially the change will be added as a path series to the autofs package,
later when an upstream beta is released the source will be updated, finally
when autofs-5.1.0 is released the source will updated again.

The release schedule has not been decided yet but the plan is to release a
beta soon followed by 5.1.0 with the timing dependant on community feedback.

Not all the changes (planned for 5.1.0 but not the amd parser itself) will be
included in 5.1.0, they will be added as time permits via minor version
updates. This is because the amd parser is considered an important feature and
needs to be made available sooner rather than later.

* Proposal owners: upstream the change is nearly ready to be committed to the
master branch and a beta released. If the beta is released soon enough
updating the Fedora autofs package source is all that will be needed. If not
then the existing patch series can be added to the autofs package in the mean
time.

* Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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