On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Allan McRae<allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > JM wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have been using autofs with my local and remote filesystems for some >> time. With an update to version 5.0 numerous bugs were introduced >> forcing many users, including me, to downgrade. On May 2nd, Andrea >> Scrapino who was the autofs maintainer at the time, orphaned the >> package and asked on arch-dev-public if some other dev would be >> interested in maintaining the package. >> >> Three months later autofs is still orphaned and autofs bugs assigned >> to BaSH haunt the bugtracker [1]. Will autofs be deprecated? If so, >> what compatible alternatives are there? >> >> Kind regards, >> JM >> >> [1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=autofs&project=1 >> > > Not answering your question, but I notice that none of those bugs have > attached a fixed PKGBUILD. It is always helpful if users who use the > package regularly try and fix the issues and post updated build files. > > Allan > > > After some struggle I managed to get it working for my case without actually changing the PKGBUILD or scripts included. FS#12768 may no longer be relevant, perhaps someone could confirm that. As for other bugs - I use neither CIFS nor LDAP. Regards, JM
