[OpenAFS] HOWTO for installation on 7.1

[Eduo]

On 2 Jul 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

Ok. I guessed so. It wouldn't be a surprise that RedHat "tweaked" RedHat's
Linux installation with "features" they saw as neccessary.

Anyway, what procedure shoudl I follow. I have all sources, including
kernel sources. Is there any special previsions I should make? (hence me
asking for a HOWTO in the beginning, I haven't found a resource that steps
you through the installation, nor documentation on how it should be at the
end, nly administration and client usage).

Also, RedHat 7.1 implements a new kind of Inetd. Calle dXinetd this one is
supposed to be much better and I use it a lot. Is it mandatory that I take
this one out to use the OpenAFS one provided? Must I substitute all my
xinetd resources witht he ones provided with AFS? Can Xinetd be used for
the same purpose?

Eduo

> Eduo <eduo@ciateq.mx> writes:
> 
> > 2.-Are the binary rpm files for OpenAFS usable? Or should i better get the
> > sources and compile it myself?
> 
> Some people have had success with the binary RPMs, and some people
> have not.  I have been unable to figure out why it works for some
> and not for others.  My guess is that Red Hat ships something like
> 6 different kernels that use 5 different sets of symbols version,
> all different.  This means that we would need 5 different kernel
> modules for each red hat 'kernel'.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to naming, there is no way to figure out which one
> to use given the current loading scheme.  I'm working on fixing that,
> too.
> 
> However, since I do not have a RH 7.1 machine myself I don't have a
> good way to test this.  I'm basically depending on Derrick to build
> the 7.1 packages, and hopefully test them.
> 
> > 3.-Are the makefiles and sources really customized for RH 7.1? I see
> > references there to Inetd whereas RH 7.1 uses xinetd, etc.
> 
> The makefiles are absolutely generic.  The RPMs do add some RH-specific
> customizations, but not many.
> 
> -derek
> 
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