[arch-general] autofs orphaned

[JM]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> 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